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Lucía I. Méndez; Dana Bitetti; Jamie Perry – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
An understanding of cross-cultural differences in narratives, particularly in children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, can help clinicians and other professionals distinguish narrative differences from impaired narratives. This study describes similarities and differences in micro-and-macrostructural components in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Story Telling, Kindergarten, Hispanic American Students
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Ebert, Kerry Danahy; Rak, Diane; Slawny, Caitlyn M.; Fogg, Louis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Attention and language are hypothesized to interact in bilingual children and in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). In children who are bilingual, attentional control may be enhanced by repeated experience regulating 2 languages. In children with DLD, subtle weaknesses in sustained attention may relate to impaired…
Descriptors: Attention, Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Attention Control
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Mesa, Carol; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria – Grantee Submission, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to examine the role that the first language (L1), Spanish, at Pre-Kindergarten plays in predicting second language (L2), English, word reading in first grade. In addition, it examines the role of conceptual vocabulary in predicting word reading in English. Method: As part of a longitudinal study of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Preschool Education, Language Role