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Carmit Altman; Sveta Fichman; Noy Perry; Pola Osher; Joel Walters – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: We examined the role of narrative microstructure (production of words and sentences) and narrative macrostructure (organization of events) in the use of internal state terms (ISTs) in narratives of bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in their school language (SL). Method: Fifty-eight Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
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Peter Siemund; Eliane Lorenz; Tugba Elif Toprak-Yildiz – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Since the earliest studies on multilingual advantages, it has proved difficult to disentangle language development from general cognition. It remains unclear whether language interdependence is an independent variable or whether observable effects are mediated by cognitive ability. Measurable effects of one language on another typically go hand in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
Toomela, Aaro, Ed.; Kikas, Eve, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The Soviet Union collapsed more than 20 years ago, but the traces left in occupied countries by this monstrous system still affect the lives of millions of people. Under the glittering surface of newsworthy events that regularly appear in the mass media, there are many other wounds hard to heal. The system of education is one of the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Russian, Finno Ugric Languages