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Mattock, Karen; Polka, Linda; Rvachew, Susan; Krehm, Madelaine – Developmental Science, 2010
English, French, and bilingual English-French 17-month-old infants were compared for their performance on a word learning task using the Switch task. Object names presented a /b/ vs. /g/ contrast that is phonemic in both English and French, and auditory strings comprised English and French pronunciations by an adult bilingual. Infants were…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Monolingualism
Moschkovich, Judit – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2009
This article summarizes research on how students who are bilingual or learning English use two languages and examines how this research is relevant to mathematics classrooms. It is easy to notice that bilingual students sometimes use two languages. It is more difficult to know whether this practice might be significant to learning mathematics.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Mathematics Instruction