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Aishwarya, N.; Deborah, D. Ruth – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
The present study was carried out with 120 Native Tamil speakers to know the effects of age and instructional language on narrative comprehension and inference-making ability. Children from 3rd to 5th grades (8 to 11 years) were divided into Group A (n = 60; Monolinguals) and Group B (n = 60; Bilinguals). Seven questions were framed to assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dravidian Languages, Age Differences, Language of Instruction
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Gunnerud, Hilde Lowell; Foldnes, Njål; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early age of second language acquisition (AoA) may produce higher levels of second language skills than a later onset of L2 exposure. Most studies on school-aged second language learners (L2 learners)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Oxbrow, Gina – Language Learning Journal, 2020
The current article presents the outcomes of a preliminary quantitative study into stakeholder perspectives of the effects of CLIL on linguistic and intercultural competence development in the Canary Islands, Spain. The investigation has employed data triangulation (students, parents, and teachers, and, within the latter, non-linguistic area and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning