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Bilingualism in Down Syndrome: A Greek Study
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Katsarou, Dimitra; Andreou, Georgia – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Children with Down syndrome (DS) present language deficits in all linguistic domains and their language development lags behind that of typically developing children. However, their receptive language skills appear to be better than their productive in all linguistic domains. Research on bilingual children with DS is limited, but has shown that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Down Syndrome, Bilingualism, Language
Bilingualism Effects on Cognition in Autistic Children Are Not All-or-Nothing: The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Intellectual Skills in Bilingual Autistic Children
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Peristeri, Eleni; Silleresi, Silvia; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Children with autism often display discrepancies in their intellectual functioning, with nonverbal skills frequently being more developed than verbal. Compared to monolingual autistic children, however, much less is known about how bilingualism affects intelligence in autism. The current study examined the intelligence profiles of 146 bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Status, Intelligence
Biliteracy and Reading Ability in Children Who Learn Greek as a Second Language
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Rothou, Kyriakoula M.; Tsimpli, Ianthi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The differences and similarities in the word recognition and reading comprehension skills of monoliterate Albanian-Greek (ML2), biliterate Albanian-Greek (BL2) and monolingual (L1) children in grades 3-6 were examined in two cross-sectional studies. Participants completed standardized and experimental tasks measuring cognitive, oral language and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Greek, Second Language Learning
The Role of Educational Setting in the Development of Verbal Aspect and Executive Functions: Evidence from Greek-German Bilingual Children
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Dosi, Ifigeneia; Papadopoulou, Despina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The present study aims at exploring: (a) the role of the educational setting in the acquisition of aspect and executive functions (i.e. updating) skills, (b) the acquisition of the aspectual features in Greek-German bilingual children and (c) the impact of updating on the acquisition of aspect. Imperfective aspect has been found to be acquired…
Descriptors: Role, Educational Environment, Executive Function, Greek
Short-Term Memory, Working Memory and Linguistic Abilities in Bilingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Talli, Ioanna; Stavrakaki, Stavroula – First Language, 2020
This article investigates verbal short-term memory (vSTM) and verbal working memory (vWM) abilities and their relation to lexical and syntactic abilities in monolingual (mono-) and bilingual (bi-) children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical development (TD). The authors employed the following tasks: vSTM (non-word repetition…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Verbal Ability, Syntax, Language Impairments
Albanian Parents and the Greek Educational Context: Who Is Willing to Fight for the Home Language?
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Gkaintartzi, Anastasia; Chatzidaki, Aspasia; Tsokalidou, Roula – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
This article examines views of Albanian immigrant parents regarding home-language maintenance in Greece. It aims to reveal language ideologies in relation to broader ideologies about schooling and education. Following a qualitative interpretative approach, we conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with 19 parents of bilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries