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Direct linkLeikin, Mark; Tovli, Esther – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study examined the possible effect of bilingualism on creativity in nonmathematical and mathematical problem solving among bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Two groups of children (M age = 71.9 months, SD = 3.6) from the same monolingual kindergartens participated in this study: 15 Russian/Hebrew balanced bilinguals and 16 native…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creativity, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
The study focused on immigrant parents' discourses about strategies for their children's preschool bilingual development and education. The article investigated how immigrant parents described and explained these strategies. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with 4 families. The 8 parents were Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel…
Descriptors: Interviews, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study focused on the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education in the development of lexical knowledge in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among second-generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants in Israel. The study was designed as a longitudinal and comparative study. The lexical knowledge of children was measured three times…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Preschool Education, Semantics
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark; Breitkopf, Anna – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2010
This study investigated how immigrant parents describe and explain their family language policy concerning their child's preschool bilingual development, and also explored the factors linked to the parents' choice of bilingual or monolingual kindergarten for their child. The study design was based on a comparison of 2 groups of parents: those who…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Schwartz, Mila; Share, David L.; Leikin, Mark; Kozminsky, Ely – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
In a previous study [Schwartz et al. (2005). "Written Language and Literacy," 8, 179-207] we showed that early literacy in Russian (L1) facilitated decoding acquisition in Hebrew (L2) among Russian-Hebrew first graders. The present study examined two alternative explanations for this finding. The first account concerns the general…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonological Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Writing Skills
