Reading, syntactic, and working memory skills of bilingual Portuguese-English Canadian children

Transfer of Reading Skills in Bilingual Children

Subproject 2 consisted of three sets of studies that focused on the transfer of language skills in Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). The first two sets of studies followed students across multiple years, examining the cross-linguistic, intra-linguistic and developmental factors that influence second language literacy development. The third set of studies was an intervention des...

Syntactic Interference in Chinese-English Bilingual Children

The Performance of Bilingual and Monolingual Children on Working Memory Tasks

Objectives: The purpose of this research was to explore the possible differences in the working memory of monolingual (Persian) and bilingual  (Persian-Baluchi) children. We wanted to examine if there is a statistically significant relationship between working memory and bilingualism. Methods: Four working memory (WM) tests, assessing three WM components, were administered to 140 second...

Effect of Working Memory Training on the Improving Reading Performance and Working Memory Capacity in Children with Dyslexia

Introduction: In recent years, researchers have focused on students who have challenges in learning, and these problems effect on their educational process. This study aimed to investigate the effect of working memory training programs on the improving reading performance and working memory capacity in children with dyslexia. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental. In this regard 30...

Verbal working memory in bilingual children.

The present study compared the performance of 44 Latino children on the Competing Language Processing Task (CLPT; C. Gaulin and T. Campbell, 1994) and the Dual Processing Comprehension Task (DPCT; S. Ellis Weismer, 1996). First, it was of interest to know if there were significant differences between children with and without bilingual proficiency on processing tasks that were assumed to requir...