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The Relationship between Receptive Vocabulary and Word and Nonword Reading Skills in Monolingual and Language Minority Bilingual Children in Italy across Primary School Grades
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Valentina Persici; Tamara Bastianello; Erika Hoff; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
The role of children's receptive vocabulary knowledge in word and nonword reading (decoding) in an orthographically transparent language is debated. Moreover, we have little understanding of how the role of vocabulary might differ between monolingual children and bilingual children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Monolingualism
Vocabulary and Reading Speed in the Majority Language Are Affected by Maternal Language Proficiency and Language Exposure at Home: A Study of Language Minority Bilingual Children in Italy
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Persici, Valentina; Majorano, Marinella; Bastianello, Tamara; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Environmental sources of variance in the Italian vocabulary and reading skills of bilingual primary school children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children (LMBC)) in Italy were investigated, and the LMBC's skill levels were compared to those of their monolingual classmates. A total of 140 children from the first, third,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3
Aula/The Classroom: Approaches to Improving the Reading Skill of the Bilingual Student.
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Cargill-Power, Carol – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1980
Once bilingual students have reached an elementary level of reading competence in their second language; a step-by-step procedure can be followed to improve their reading skills through exercises and techniques which develop reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension. (SB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement