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The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program
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Lujia Yang; Karen Pollock; Youran Lin; Benjamin V. Tucker; Fangfang Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to examine how language background and grade level influence the voiceless sibilant fricative production of two groups of children enrolled in a Mandarin-English bilingual school in Canada. One group of children was exposed to Mandarin at home as heritage language (HL), and the other group had little to no exposure to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
The Relationship between Receptive Vocabulary and Word and Nonword Reading Skills in Monolingual and Language Minority Bilingual Children in Italy across Primary School Grades
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Valentina Persici; Tamara Bastianello; Erika Hoff; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
The role of children's receptive vocabulary knowledge in word and nonword reading (decoding) in an orthographically transparent language is debated. Moreover, we have little understanding of how the role of vocabulary might differ between monolingual children and bilingual children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Monolingualism