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Gordon-Salant, Sandra; Yeni-Komshian, Grace H.; Bieber, Rebecca E.; Ureta, David A. Jara; Freund, Maya S.; Fitzgibbons, Peter J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Older native speakers of English have difficulty in understanding Spanish-accented English compared to younger native English speakers. However, it is unclear if this age effect would be observed among native speakers of Spanish. The current study investigates the effects of age and native language experience with Spanish on the ability…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Listening Skills, Native Language, Language Enrichment
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DeAnda, Stephanie; Bosch, Laura; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Zesiger, Pascal; Friend, Margaret – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop the Language Exposure Assessment Tool (LEAT) and to examine its cross-linguistic validity, reliability, and utility. The LEAT is a computerized interview-style assessment that requests parents to estimate language exposure. The LEAT yields an automatic calculation of relative language exposure and…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Language Skills, Infants, Children
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Ruiz-Felter, Roxanna; Cooperson, Solaman J.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Although some investigations of phonological development have found that segmental accuracy is comparable in monolingual children and their bilingual peers, there is evidence that language use affects segmental accuracy in both languages. Aims: To investigate the influence of age of first exposure to English and the amount of current…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Kindergarten, Young Children, Bilingual Students
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Whitacre, Michael – International Journal of Instruction, 2015
The central focus of this study was to determine the overall perceptions of school administrators, and the district bilingual coordinator on transferring theory to classroom practice, implementation, as viewed by those involved in the implementation process of the Gómez and Gómez Model of Dual Language Education. Responses were solicited from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Spanish, Theory Practice Relationship, Models
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Kaushanskaya, Margarita; Yoo, Jeewon; Van Hecke, Stephanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The goal of this research was to examine whether phonological familiarity exerts different effects on novel word learning for familiar versus unfamiliar referents and whether successful word learning is associated with increased second-language experience. Method: Eighty-one adult native English speakers with various levels of Spanish…
Descriptors: Phonology, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Adults
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Song, Lulu; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Wu, Irene – Developmental Psychology, 2012
We longitudinally investigated parental language context and infants' language experiences in relation to Dominican American and Mexican American infants' vocabularies. Mothers provided information on parental language context, comprising measures of parents' language background (i.e., childhood language) and current language use during interviews…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Vocabulary Development
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Pons, Ferran; Albareda-Castellot, Barbara; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Child Development, 2012
Vowels with extreme articulatory-acoustic properties act as natural referents. Infant perceptual asymmetries point to an underlying bias favoring these referent vowels. However, as language experience is gathered, distributional frequency of speech sounds could modify this initial bias. The perception of the /i/-/e/ contrast was explored in 144…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Acoustics, Vocabulary Development
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Parra, Marisol; Hoff, Erika; Core, Cynthia – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The relation of phonological memory to language experience and development was investigated in 41 Spanish-English bilingual first language learners. The children's relative exposure to English and Spanish and their phonological memory for English- and Spanish-like nonwords were assessed at 22 months of age, and their productive vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Memory, Language Enrichment, Language Acquisition
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Davis, Chris; Sanchez-Casas, Rosa; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Guasch, Marc; Molero, Margarita; Ferre, Pilar – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Spanish-English bilingual lexical organization was investigated using masked cognate and non-cognate priming with the lexical decision task. In Experiment 1, three groups of bilinguals (Spanish dominant, English dominant and Balanced) and a single group of beginning bilinguals (Spanish) were tested with Spanish and English targets primed by…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Enrichment, Bilingualism, Spanish
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Whiting, Erin; Feinauer, Erika; VanDerwerken, Douglas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Scholars who work with Latino/as in the USA have long been calling for a more nuanced understanding of the heterogeneity of the US-based Latino population. Two-way Immersion (TWI) bilingual education programmes are an interesting context in which to examine the Latino parent communities in the USA. Overall, the language enrichment nature of TWI…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Language Enrichment
Degani, Tamar – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Could a second language (L2) influence how bilinguals process their native language (L1)? The work described in this dissertation examined this issue focusing on the way bilinguals interpret the meanings of words. Capitalizing on the prevalence of words that can be translated in more than one way across languages (i.e., "translation ambiguity,"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Bilingualism, Language Enrichment, Monolingualism
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Colbert, Ron – Childhood Education, 2009
With the rapid onset of globalization and increasing demand from business, government, and schools for fluency in another language, the author decided to learn Spanish. Driven by a desire to acquire functional language abilities in Spanish, he has embarked on this "better late than never" opportunity to learn the language, and in this…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Learning Experience
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Goldstein, Brian A.; Bunta, Ferenc; Lange, Jenny; Rodriguez, Jenny; Burrows, Lauren – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2010
Purpose: The present study investigated the effects of selected measures of language experience (parent-reported estimates of frequency of output and language use) and language ability (parent-reported language proficiency and mean length of utterance in words) on the segmental accuracy of Spanish- and English-speaking bilingual children. Method:…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Enrichment, Language Proficiency, Language Acquisition
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Windsor, Jennifer; Kohnert, Kathryn; Lobitz, Kelann F.; Pham, Giang T. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2010
Purpose: Identifying children with primary or specific language impairment (LI) in languages other than English continues to present a diagnostic challenge. This study examined the utility of English and Spanish nonword repetition (NWR) to identify children known to have LI. Method: Participants were 4 groups of school-age children (N = 187).…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Enrichment, Bilingualism
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Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2011
This study investigates intergroup homogeneity within high intermediate and advanced L2 writers of English from Czech, Finnish, German, and Spanish first language backgrounds. A variety of linguistic features related to lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity, and cohesion were used to compare texts written by L1 speakers of English to L2…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Language Proficiency, Language Enrichment, English (Second Language)
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