ERIC Number: EJ875119
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jan
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The Home Language Environment of Monolingual and Bilingual Children and Their Language Proficiency
Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y.
Applied Psycholinguistics, v31 n1 p117-140 Jan 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 equal domain general cognitive abilities, Dutch children scored higher than the bilingual children on a L1 vocabulary test, and Moroccan-Dutch children had higher second language (L2) vocabulary skills compared to Turkish-Dutch children. Multigroup analyses revealed strong impact on both L1 and L2 skills of language specific input in literate and oral activities. Finally, indications were found of positive cross-language transfer from L1 to L2 as well as competition between L1 and L2 input. (Contains 6 tables and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Ability, Bilingualism, Turkish, Family Environment, Immigrants, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Oral Language, Transfer of Training, Scores, Children, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Socioeconomic Status
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