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Shrubshall, P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
To find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, study analyzes and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5- to 10-year-olds in two ways. Uses Labov's taxonomy to measure evaluation, and shema theory to do an episodic analysis of elicited narratives. Argues that these frameworks serve to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Woutersen, Mirjam; And Others – 1996
A study investigated lexical decision-making among Dutch-English bilinguals in the auditory modality. Subjects, bilinguals at three proficiency levels (intermediate, high, and near-native) were presented with 40 cognate and 40 non-cognate word pairs, a similar number of English and Dutch distractors, and a similar number of nonsense words in each…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics