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Kathryn B. Wiseman; Tiana M. Cowan; Lauren Calandruccio; Elizabeth A. Walker; Barbara Rodriguez; Jacob J. Oleson; Ryan W. McCreery; Lori J. Leibold; Emily Buss – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This report compares device use in a cohort of Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children who are deaf and hard of hearing, including children fitted with traditional hearing aids, cochlear implants (CIs), and/or bone-conduction hearing devices. Method: Participants were 84 Spanish-English bilingual children and 85 English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Spanish, English
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Daniela Avelar; Adriana Weisleder; Roberta Michnick Golinkoff – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Shared book reading is important for children's early literacy development. Although there is an increasing number of dual language learners, few studies have examined families' shared book reading practices in their two languages. The current study examined Hispanic parents' beliefs and practices during shared reading in…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Hispanic Americans, Parent Attitudes, Spanish Speaking
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Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha; Durán, Lillian; Brunner, Stephanie; Palma, Jose; Kohlmeier, Theresa; Rodriguez, Michael C. – Educational Assessment, 2019
Spanish speakers in the United States are a steadily increasing population, up by 233% since 1980. Given the growing population of dual language learners (DLLs) and the large numbers of Spanish-speaking children enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs, addressing the educational needs of preschool-aged DLLs has become a national imperative.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingual Students
Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha; Durán, Lillian; Brunner, Stephanie; Palma, Jose; Kohlmeier, Theresa; Rodriguez, Michael C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Spanish speakers in the United States are a steadily increasing population, up by 233% since 1980. Given the growing population of dual language learners (DLLs) and the large numbers of Spanish-speaking children enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs, addressing the educational needs of preschool-aged DLLs has become a national imperative.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingual Students
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Edgar, Elizabeth V.; Todd, James Torrence; Eschman, Bret; Hayes, Timothy; Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Recent research has demonstrated that individual differences in infant attention to faces and voices of women speaking predict language outcomes in childhood. These findings have been generated using two new audiovisual attention assessments appropriate for infants and young children, the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) and the…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Infants, Attention
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Shiro, Martha; Hoff, Erika – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
We identify language and discourse skills in 54-month-old Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers and their English-speaking monolingual peers, using multiple measures. Forty-one Spanish-English bilingual and 25 English monolingual children, all US born, viewed an eight-minute wordless video. The bilingual children recounted the story once in…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children
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Giguere, David; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In bilingual children, more so than in monolingual children, comprehension abilities exceed production abilities. While this receptive-expressive gap in bilinguals has been well documented, little is known about its development. The present study tracked growth in the Spanish and English receptive and expressive vocabularies of 52 bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Jennifer George – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Researchers found dual language programs allow students to acquire a second language while building positive cross-cultural beliefs. However, there are inconsistencies between what research shows and teachers' perceptions of success. The problem was a gap in academic achievement between both English Language Learners (ELL) and non-ELL students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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LeLaurin, Jennifer H.; Sypniewski, Caroline; Wing, Kristen; Freytes, I. Magaly; Findley, Kimberly; Uphold, Constance R. – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: Caregivers of stroke survivors need trusted information on stroke prevention, rehabilitation, and self-care. Purpose: Develop and evaluate the English and Spanish-language RESCUE stroke caregiver websites and conduct a promotional campaign to enhance their reach. Methods: We developed websites by partnering with organizations and using…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Prevention, Web Sites, Information Dissemination
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Bailey, Jhonelle; Bulotsky-Shearer, Rebecca J. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Peer play interactions are important contexts for supporting early learning both at home and at school for preschool children from low-income backgrounds. The current study used structural equation modeling to examine whether teacher-reported learning behaviors in the classroom mediated the relationship between parent-reported…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education
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Alfano, Alliete R. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
Only 15% of children with hearing loss who could receive a cochlear implant receive one leaving American Sign Language (ASL) as their access to communication. Spanish-speaking families face even greater challenges including learning different languages/cultures and lack of trained Hispanic professionals. This study identifies how Hispanic mothers…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Mothers, Children, Hearing Impairments
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Ardila, Alfredo; Garcia, Krystal; Garcia, Melissa; Mejia, Joselyn; Vado, Grace – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Written bilingualism represents a particular type of bilingualism that is not frequently approached. The aim of this study was to investigate the writing and reading abilities of second-generation immigrants, Spanish-English bilinguals in South Florida. 58 participants (36 females, 22 males; 18-39 years of age) were selected. Both parents were…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Writing Ability
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Wood, Carla; Fitton, Lisa; Petscher, Yaacov; Rodriguez, Estrella; Sunderman, Gretchen; Lim, Taehyeong – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of an intensive vocabulary intervention embedded in e-books on the vocabulary skills of young Spanish-English speaking English learners (ELs) from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds. Method: Children (N = 288) in kindergarten and 1st grade were randomly assigned to treatment and read-only…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Vocabulary Development, Bilingual Students
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Edmonds, Lisa A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine (a) correlates of informativeness and efficiency in discourse and (b) potential cross-linguistic and stimulus type (picture vs. nonpicture) differences in measures of informativeness and efficiency in Spanish/English bilingual adults in the United States. Method: Eighty-eight Spanish/English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Correlation
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Sandilos, Lia E.; Lewis, Kandia; Komaroff, Eugene; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Scarpino, Shelley E.; Lopez, Lisa; Rodriguez, Barbara; Goldstein, Brian – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the way in which items on the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey Revised (WMLS-R) Spanish and English versions function for bilingual children from different ethnic subgroups who speak different dialects of Spanish. Using data from a sample of 324 bilingual Hispanic families and their children living on the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, English, Spanish
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