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Gatlin-Nash, Brandy; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined the use of African American English (AAE) among a group of young Latinx bilingual children and the accuracy of the English Morphosyntax subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA) in classifying these children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Children (N = 81) between the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Aparici, Melina; Cuberos, Rocío; Salas, Naymé; Rosado, Elisa – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Mastering analytical writing involves the proficient use of varied later-acquired grammatical, lexical and discourse forms and functions. Developmental studies have identified specific linguistic features as diagnostic of increasing proficiency. This study examines how these features change throughout educational levels and before and after the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Grammar
Lee, James F. – Hispania, 2017
The present study examines how second language learners (L2) assign the thematic roles of agent/patient in Spanish passive sentences with "ser" (often referred to as the true passive) when it is their initial exposure to this structure. The target sentences were preceded by a contextual sentence. After hearing the two sentences,…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Processing
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
De Anda, Stephanie; Blossom, Megan; Abel, Alyson D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This single-case study examines a complexity approach to target selection in grammatical intervention in three children with varying levels of mastery of tense and agreement. Specifically, we examine whether targeting a complex tense and agreement grammatical structure (auxiliary BE in questions) leads to generalization to other less…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Morphemes, Grammar, Intervention
Sedlmeier, Peter; Tipandjan, Arun; Jänchen, Anastasia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Does the language we speak shape the way we think? The present research concentrated on the impact of grammatical gender on cognition and examined the persistence of the grammatical gender effect by (a) concentrating on German, a three-gendered language, for which previous results have been inconsistent, (b) statistically controlling for common…
Descriptors: Grammar, German, Dravidian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
González Cuenca, Antonia; Lavigne Cervan, Rocio; Prieto Cuberos, Monica – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2020
The advance of new hearing technologies has generated high expectations regarding the development and learning of deaf children, but little research has been done on the language levels of this generation of deaf learners who receive education at the same pace as their hearing peers. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Language Proficiency, Expectation
Lindsey Alane Hiebert – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This manuscript-based dissertation is comprised of three interrelated longitudinal studies on Spanish language growth and deceleration and its impact on English language growth and English reading skills in bilingual children. Chapter 1 introduces the manuscript-based dissertation and provides the background on existing, longitudinal work of dual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
Kapantzoglou, Maria; Fergadiotis, Gerasimos; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study examined whether the language sample elicitation technique (i.e., storytelling and story-retelling tasks with pictorial support) affects lexical diversity (D), grammaticality (grammatical errors per communication unit [GE/CU]), sentence length (mean length of utterance in words [MLUw]), and sentence complexity (subordination…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Language Impairments, Grammar
Jackson-Maldonado, Donna; Maldonado, Ricardo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: A limited number of studies have analyzed grammaticality in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Most of the available data are based on bilingual speakers. Aims: To extend previous studies by doing a more detailed analysis of grammatical types in monolingual Spanish-speakers with and without…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish Speaking, Children, Foreign Countries
Amenós-Pons, José; Ahern, Aoife; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
Considering the acquisition of past tense uses by L2 Spanish advanced learners with closely related L1s (French, Portuguese), this study attempts to identify factors associated with variability, such as negative transfer or interface integration. We report data on the acquisition, by adult L1 French and Portuguese learners at B2 and C1 CEFR…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Second Language Learning
Judy, Tiffany – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The present study examines potential age and microparametric effects in childhood bilinguals (currently adults) in an understudied language pairing, Polish-Spanish. Specifically, a Spanish group (N = 28) and a Sequential child bilingual (N = 22) and a Simultaneous bilingual (N = 8) group living in Misiones, Argentina, completed three experimental…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Bilingualism, Polish
Wingate, Ursula – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The number of pupils learning modern foreign languages (MFLs) beyond the age of 14 has fallen substantially over the last decade. Among other reasons, shortcomings in teaching methodology have been blamed for this situation. The methodology has been accused of applying the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in a selective way and not…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Méndez, Lucía I. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: This study examined the nature of the relation between language-specific vocabulary and conceptual lexical-semantic skills with grammatical abilities within and across languages in preschool Latino dual language learners (DLLs). Method: Sixty-one typically developing, Spanish-English speaking DLLs from preschools serving low-income…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Semantics, Grammar, Language Skills
Arnaus Gil, Laia; Müller, Natascha; Sette, Nadine; Hüppop, Marina – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
This article examines factors that promote active multilingualism. For this purpose, the "Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test" was used with 48 children. Their results were linked to a parental questionnaire designed to evaluate the children's linguistic input in their immediate environment. The study shows that, besides a minimum amount of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage