Language and Literacy in Bilingual ChildrenD. Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E. Eilers This volume stems from research conducted during the 1990s in Miami, Florida, under a grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. A collaborating group of scholars trained in and deeply committed to empirical research on language acquisition in both English and Spanish access the effects of bilingual learning in significant new ways. The research takes into account such factors as the capabilities and backgrounds of bilingual students in both their languages, the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socio-economic status, the effect of different language use patterns in the home, and the role of single-language immersion in school as compared to inclusion of both home and target languages. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects | 22 |
Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test | 41 |
Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral | 64 |
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2nd and 5th 2nd grade 5th grade acquisition advantage analysis Bialystok bilingual children bilingual education bilingual groups Chapter chil child Complex Syntax correct judgments correlations count nouns differences English and Spanish English Immersion ESOL evaluation factors Figure Frog Frog Story Gathercole gender grammatical guage gual High SES children Hispanic home language input Language Score language shift Language Spoken learning Letter-Word Lingualism linguistic Low SES Low SES children main effect MANOVA mass nouns mass/count Miami monolingual children Monolingual English monolingual peers monolinguals and bilinguals non-prototypical Noun Number Noun Type oral language outperformed Participant Group pattern performed better phonological awareness phonological translation Picture Vocabulary plural PPVT reading significant Spanish at home Spanish language Spoken at Home standard scores standardized tests Story Score structures Table that-trace tion Two-way bilinguals Two-way children Two-way education Two-way schools Type I errors ungrammatical sentences variables Word Attack