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Bilingual Children's Language Learning in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
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Niklas, Frank; Tayler, Collette; Cohrssen, Caroline – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Early language ability is a strong predictor of later language and reading outcomes. Whilst young children with home languages that differ from the dominant language spoken in their country of residence may lag behind their peers in literacy and academic achievement, effective supports for young dual-language users may be overlooked in mainstream…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Early Childhood Education, Bilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
Social Competence and Language Skills in Mandarin-English Bilingual Preschoolers: The Moderation Effect of Emotion Regulation
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Ren, Yonggang; Wyver, Shirley; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: The main aim of this study was to examine whether language skills and emotion regulation are associated with social competence and whether the relationship between English skills and social competence is moderated by emotion regulation in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers. The language skills of 96 children ages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Language Skills, Mandarin Chinese
Language Comprehension Errors--A Further Investigation.
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Clarkson, Philip C. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1991
Error frequency and language competence of bilingual grade 6 students were analyzed to determine the effect of language comprehension in errors made in solving mathematical word problems. Results provide support for the linkage of comprehension errors to measures of language competency. (29 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Learning to Spell: The Way Children Make Use of Morphemic Information. Research Report 1/82.
Thomas, Valerie – 1982
A study investigated the way in which children make use of morphemic information when they are learning to spell. Specifically, it examined the use of morphemic information in spelling compound words; the use made of morphemic information when adding suffixes to words, and the way the morphological rule governing the formation of the past tense is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, English