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Happ, Roland; Nagel, Marie-Theres; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Schmidt, Susanne – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this study, we examine the knowledge of students in a master program in business and economics and explore whether migration-specific influences can be determined. We tested the knowledge of 1,451 students from 40 universities in Germany in the content areas of accounting, finance, and microeconomics. Migration background had a significant…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Economics Education
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Willard, Jessica A.; Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Are family literacy activities linked to gains in preschool-aged dual language learners' (DLLs') societal language vocabulary? To understand connections between literacy activities and vocabulary, we separately considered literacy activities in the respective heritage language and in the societal language, German, and accounted…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Native Language, Turkish
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Budde-Spengler, Nora; Sachse, Steffi; Rinker, Tanja – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Lexical development of bilingual children is influenced by a number of input factors. In the present study, early lexical skills of 25-month old children growing up with Turkish and German were assessed. Parents of 92 children filled out a newly developed list for productive Turkish vocabulary, as well as a vocabulary list for German. A parental…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Bilingualism, Turkish, German
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Bongartz, Christiane; Torregrossa, Jacopo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Several studies have revealed the cognitive and linguistic benefits of balanced bilingualism, but the research on balanced biliteracy is still in its initial stages (Marinis et al. submitted. "Biliteracy Education Impacts on Cognition Selectively"). This study investigates the positive effects of balanced biliteracy on the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Personal Narratives, Greek
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Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang – First Language, 2017
Children develop linguistic competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Consequently, one way to support this development is by enhancing the home literacy environment (HLE) in which children live. In this study a non-intensive intervention procedure was developed to improve HLE and linguistic competencies of 125 German…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Vocabulary Development
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Grieve, Averil Marie – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This study focuses on the relationships between host family success, social integration, length of stay and acquisition of adolescent language by students on extended international homestay programmes. Degree of adolescent language acquisition and integration is measured by use of two hallmarks of adolescent language: markers of approximation…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Correlation
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Rose, Elisabeth; Lehrl, Simone; Ebert, Susanne; Weinert, Sabine – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study investigated the long-term interrelations among children's language competencies, their home literacy environment (HLE), and 3 aspects of socioemotional development from ages 3 to 8, controlling for characteristics of the child and family. For this sample of 547 typically developing German children, parents and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Aggression