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Simultaneous Acquisition of English and Chinese Impacts Children's Reliance on Vocabulary, Morphological and Phonological Awareness for Reading in English
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Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju; Ip, Ka I.; Arredondo, Maria M.; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The developmental process of reading acquisition is frequently conceptualized as a self-organizing mental network consisting of lexico-semantic, phonological and orthographical components. The developmental nature of this network varies across languages and is known to impact second-language learners of typologically different languages. Yet, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Cross-Linguistic Differences in the Associations between Morphological Awareness and Reading in Spanish and English in Young Simultaneous Bilinguals
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Marks, Rebecca A.; Sun, Xin; McAlister López, Eva; Nickerson, Nia; Hernandez, Isabel; Caruso, Valeria C.; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study aimed to clarify the relations between morphological awareness and literacy skills in Spanish and English in young simultaneous bilingual learners. Guided by theoretical perspectives on the associations between morphological awareness and word- versus sentence-level literacy skills, and their transfer between bilinguals' two languages,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Morphology (Languages), Bilingualism, English (Second Language)