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Amanda Mahnaz Yazdani – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigated how a bilingual's experiences can affect how their first language pronunciation can differ from monolingual speakers of their two languages. We used a methodology incorporating quantitative phonetic measurements of voice onset time and vowel formants, grammar and vocabulary tests, and qualitative measures of language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Lindgren, Josefin – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study investigates effects of age on character introductions in the oral narratives of seventy-two monolingual Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds, comparing results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN; Gagarina "et al.," 2012, 2015), and the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI; Schneider…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Swedish, Oral Language, Monolingualism
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LeBlanc, Robert Jean – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
Framing ethnography as a form of democratic inquiry, this study examines how the author worked with a group of Mexican and Vietnamese American adolescents to learn and apply ethnographic tools to interrogate language and literacy ideologies in their school and community. Examination of the students' findings reveals circulating ideologies and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Mexican Americans, Hispanic American Students, Asian Americans
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Penke, Martina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The study aims to explore whether finite verbal morphology is affected in children/adolescents with Down syndrome (DS), whether observed deficits in this domain are indicative of a delayed or deviant development, and whether they are due to phonetic/phonological problems or deficits in phonological short-term memory. Method: An…
Descriptors: Grammar, German, Task Analysis, Down Syndrome
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Milman, Lisa H.; Faroqi-Shah, Yasmeen; Corcoran, Chris D.; Damele, Deanna M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), among the most widely used global screens of adult cognitive status, is affected by demographic variables including age, education, and ethnicity. This study extends prior research by examining the specific effects of bilingualism on MMSE performance. Method: Sixty independent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Adults, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
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Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Nadig, Aparna S. – Child Development, 2019
This study investigated the effects of bilingualism on set-shifting and working memory in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Bilinguals with ASD were predicted to display a specific bilingual advantage in set-shifting, but not working memory, relative to monolinguals with ASD. Forty 6- to 9-year-old children participated (20 ASD, 20…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory
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Sparks, Richard L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Studies have shown that U.S. learners' proficiency in reading and listening comprehension lags behind their ability to decode words. Recent studies have found that even after 3 years of high school L2 courses, U.S. students fail to develop minimal proficiency in reading comprehension. This paper suggests that while cognitive factors (word decoding…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Reading Comprehension
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Guðmundsdóttir, Margrét D.; Lesk, Valerie E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This study examined whether the proposed bilingual advantage in inhibitory control and working memory can be extended to a trilingual advantage, and assessed any age-related effects on a continuum in young adults to older adults. Trilinguals, bilinguals and monolinguals' performance on the Simon task and a numerical version of the N-back task was…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Musolff, Andreas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Sociolinguists have adopted the concept of 'super-diversity' from cultural anthropology to analyse multidimensional changes in ethnolinguistic identities resulting from recent mass migration. Sociolinguistic super-diversity is thus understood as a central aspect of shifts in migration patterns that have increased the complexity of cultural…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Self Concept
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Salameh-Matar, Abeer; Basal, Nasir; Weintraub, Naomi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The knowledge relating to the effect of learning a second language (L2) on the mother tongue (L1) is relatively limited. Most studies focused on linguistic and reading skills, but we did not find studies relating to handwriting performance. Our study focused on the transfer effect of handwriting performance from Hebrew L2 to Arabic L1. The sample…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Semitic Languages, Bilingual Students
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Haualand, Hilde; Holmström, Ingela – Deafness & Education International, 2019
This article focuses on the similar approaches to, yet different contexts of legal recognition of sign languages in Sweden and Norway. We use examples from sign language documentation (both scientific and popular), legislation that mentions sign language, organization of implementation of sign language acquisition, and public discourse (as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Csernicskó, István; Beregszászi, Anikó – Language Policy, 2019
In this paper, we explore the role of mundane artefacts, namely bank notes, in the construction of language policy. Our case study involves a site of complex language policy and politics, namely the current day territory of Transcarpathia. During the twentieth century the region of Transcarpathia belonged to several different states: to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Planning, Politics, History
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Kašcelan, Draško; Katsos, Napoleon; Gibson, Jenny L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Some evidence suggests that bilingualism improves communication and cognitive skills which are often impaired in autism. However, diagnosing autism in bilinguals may suffer a cultural bias, which can affect the investigation of bilingualism and autism. Therefore, the current study investigates relations between autistic-like traits (ALTs) and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Skills
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Alsaif, Reema Ali S.; Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This paper explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and shows how this religious site contains within it different domains, each with their own LL and preferred mediums of display. We illustrate this by exploring the LL of five domains within the mosque: Holiness, Education, Workplace, Local Governance and the Public…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Religious Factors, Islam, Muslims
Graham, Keith M.; Pan, W.-Y.; Eslami, Z. R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Ideology
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