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The Interplay of Lexical and Grammatical Development in Greek-Albanian Bilingual Children: Evidence from the Majority and the Heritage Language
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Maria Kaltsa; Alexandra Prentza; Leonarda Prela; Ianthi Maria Tsimpli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present paper aims to investigate the interplay of lexical and grammatical development in school-aged Greek-Albanian bilingual children by providing evidence both from majority, Greek, and heritage, Albanian. To this end, 47 8 to 10-year-old bilingual children were tested by means of expressive vocabulary tests in Greek and in Albanian, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Young Children
Exploring Views on Heritage Language Use and Bilingual Acquisition: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Teachers and Immigrant Students in the Greek Context
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Griva, Eleni; Kiliari, Angeliki; Stamou, Anastasia G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
In this paper, we present a synthesis of a series of studies, carried out by our research groups, from the Greek educational context on teachers' and immigrant students' views on issues of bilingual acquisition and of heritage language learning and teaching. Albeit including heterogeneous samples and employing quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Usage, Bilingualism