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Blom, Elma; Boerma, Tessel; Bosma, Evelyn; Cornips, Leonie; van den Heuij, Kirsten; Timmermeister, Mona – First Language, 2020
Various studies have shown that bilingual children score lower than their monolingual peers on standardized receptive vocabulary tests. This study investigates if this effect is moderated by language distance. Dutch receptive vocabulary was tested with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). The impact of cross-language distance was examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Bilingualism, At Risk Students, Vocabulary Development
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Sander, Anne E; Admiraal, Wilfried – Journal of Research in International Education, 2016
While multilingualism itself is a widely analyzed topic, a study about multilingualism at German schools abroad is so far unique. This quantitative study investigates the differences in the size of German expressive and receptive vocabulary between monolingual and multilingual students, aged between 5 and 11 years. A cohort of 65 multilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan-Dutch (n = 46) and Turkish-Dutch (n = 55) 3-year-olds, speaking Tarifit-Berber, a nonscripted language, and Turkish as their first language (L1), respectively. Despite…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages