Cross-language distance influences receptive vocabulary outcomes of bilingual children

Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children.

Studies often report that bilingual participants possess a smaller vocabulary in the language of testing than monolinguals, especially in research with children. However, each study is based on a small sample so it is difficult to determine whether the vocabulary difference is due to sampling error. We report the results of an analysis of 1,738 children between 3 and 10 years old and demonstrat...

Early language processing efficiency predicts later receptive vocabulary outcomes in children born preterm.

As rates of prematurity continue to rise, identifying which preterm children are at increased risk for learning disabilities is a public health imperative. Identifying continuities between early and later skills in this vulnerable population can also illuminate fundamental neuropsychological processes that support learning in all children. At 18 months adjusted age, we used socioeconomic status...

Conceptual scoring of receptive and expressive vocabulary measures in simultaneous and sequential bilingual children.

PURPOSE The authors examined the effects of conceptual scoring on the performance of simultaneous and sequential bilinguals on standardized receptive and expressive vocabulary measures in English and Spanish. METHOD Participants included 40 English-speaking monolingual children, 39 simultaneous Spanish-English bilingual children, and 19 sequential bilingual children, ages 5-7. The children co...

Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual adults

a comparative study of bilingual schools and language institutes: examining iranian efl students’ knowledge of listening, reading grammar and vocabulary

هدف از پژوهش حاضر مقایسه زبان آموزان مدارس دوزبانه و موسسات آموزش زبان انگلیسی به منظور تعیین هر گونه تفاوت معنادار در مهارت های درک مطلب، درک شنیداری، دانش دستوری و دانش واژگان است. اطلاعات لازم برای این پژوهش از مجموعه 197 نفر دانش آموز پسر در مدارس دوزبانه و موسسات آموزش زبان جمع آوری شده است. تمامی شرکت کنندگان به مدت چهار الی پنج سال در کلاس های زبان انگلیسی شرکت کرده اند. به منظور جمع آور...