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Susan Thomas Davison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rate of autism continues to increase globally across cultures and languages. Inequities exist in early access to an autism diagnosis and necessary evidence-based education and related services for dual-language children in the U.S. This qualitative dissertation study investigated the perspectives and practices of 10 educators and therapists…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children, English Language Learners
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Pratt, Amy S.; Grinstead, John A.; McCauley, Rebecca J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This exploratory study describes the emergent literacy skills of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) who speak Spanish, a language with a simple phonological structure and transparent orthography. We examine differences between children with DLD and their typically developing (TD) peers on a battery of emergent literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Monolingualism, Preschool Children
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Hatoss, Anikó – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This study explored stories of intergenerational language maintenance narrated by first- generation Hungarian immigrants in Australia. It sought an understanding of Hungarian immigrants' positioning "vis-à-vis" their language ecology during the assimilationist post-war era of Australia. The narratives reveal that some families accepted…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Acculturation
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Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Soto, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
We assessed the effect of bilingualism on metacognitive processing in the artificial language learning task, in 2 experiments varying in the difficulty to segment the language. Following a study phase in which participants were exposed to the artificial language, segmentation performance was assessed by means of a dual forced-choice recognition…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Bilingualism, Language Processing, Artificial Languages
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Lim, Sumin; Cheatham, Gregory A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
Communication difficulties between immigrant families who are non-native English speakers and special education professionals lead to unsuccessful family-professional partnerships. Such difficulties are often attributed to families' low English proficiency or to limited access to quality language services. Other sources of partnership issues are…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Partnerships in Education, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Fabiano-Smith, Leah; Privette, Chelsea; An, Lingling – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the diagnostic accuracy of traditional measures of phonological ability developed for monolingual English-speaking children with their bilingual peers in both English and Spanish. We predicted that a composite measure, derived from a combination of English and Spanish phonological measures, would…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Accuracy, English
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Piller, Ingrid; Gerber, Livia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
In contemporary Western societies, parenting has become the subject of a substantial body of advice and self-help literature. Within this literature, questions of bilingual parenting have begun to add yet another dimension to parental anxieties. Against this background, we examine how parents in a general Australian online parenting forum discuss…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Parent Child Relationship
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Nguyen, My V. H.; Winsler, Adam – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Foreign language learning is generally not required in the United States, despite its link to various cognitive and social benefits later in life. Students who speak a home language different from the instructional language of school may experience unique benefits when learning additional languages in school. The present study examined whether…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Enrollment
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Bettney, Esther – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
With thousands of students enrolled in bilingual schools in Latin America, there are long-standing concerns regarding students' negotiation of their national identities. Arguments have been raised that these programs may contribute to the denationalization of students' identities, or that schools' prioritizing of foreign cultures results in…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, High School Students, Grade 11
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Kung, Melody; Stolz, Kelsey; Lin, Joyce; Foster, Matthew E.; Schmitt, Sara A.; Purpura, David J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2021
Some evidence suggests that the home numeracy environment (HNE) is related to children's numeracy. Socioeconomic status (SES) and language minority status can also influence children's HNE and numeracy. Limited HNE research focuses on dual language learners (DLLs). Using a sample of preschool-aged children (n = 98) from low socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Bilingualism
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Burns, Jennifer – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article investigates what kind of multilingual operations are carried out as migrant and transnational creative writers deploy in their fictions in Italian (often an acquired language) the languages which they hold in their personal repertoires. Exploring first the linguistic, political and cultural implications of what Algerian author, Amara…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Italian, Code Switching (Language), Intercultural Communication
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Sun, Xin; Marks, Rebecca A.; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Zhang, Kehui; Lau, Chikyi; Yu, Chi-Lin; Nickerson, Nia; Kovelman, Ioulia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Children who speak one language at home and a different language at school may be at higher risk of falling behind in their academic achievement when schooling is disrupted. The present study examined the effects of COVID-19-related school disruptions on English language and literacy development among monolingual and bilingual children in the US.…
Descriptors: Literacy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Spanish
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Nieporowski, Piotr; Steciag, Magdalena; Zábranský, Lukáš – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The following article attempts to characterise the current changes in the communication of people living in the area of Polish-Czech borderland based on the results of the study conducted in 2018 and 2019. The aim is to determine the dominant mode of supranational communication, as well as the reason behind its prevalence by analysing the language…
Descriptors: Polish, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zaretsky, Eugen; Lange, Benjamin P. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
Bilingual children with a limited command of the second language (L2) often yield unsatisfactory results in L2-based non-word repetition tasks (NWRT) for the assessment of working memory. In this study, monolinguals (MO) and bilinguals (BI) of preschool age acquiring German were compared in regard to their performance on German-based NWRT to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lin, Yu-Cheng; Lin, Pei-Ying; Yeh, Li-Hao – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Previous studies on spoken word production have shown that native English speakers used phoneme-sized units (e.g., a word-initial phoneme, C) to produce English words, and native Mandarin Chinese speakers employed syllable-sized units (e.g., a word-initial consonant and vowel, CV) as phonological encoding units in Chinese. With spoken word…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Word Recognition, Mandarin Chinese, English
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