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Direct linkSharon Unsworth; Marieke Van Den Akker; Caya Van Dijk – Journal of Child Language, 2025
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, public life in many countries ground to a halt in early 2020. The aims of this study were (i) to uncover the language practices of multilingual families during the pandemic, in general and especially regarding homeschooling; and (ii) to determine to what extent the changes in circumstance caused by the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Multilingualism, Family (Sociological Unit)
Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render case marking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We also investigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case-marking cues to interpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. A group of six- to…
Descriptors: Greek, Native Language, Children, Preadolescents
Tulloch, Michelle K.; Hoff, Erika – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In this preregistered, longitudinal study of early code-switching, 34 US-born, Spanish-English bilingual children were recorded with a bilingual family member at 2;6 and 3;6, in Spanish-designated and English-designated interactions. Children's Spanish and English expressive vocabulary and their exposure to code-switching were measured through…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Spanish
Rydland, Veslemøy; Grøver, Vibeke – Journal of Child Language, 2020
From a socio-cultural perspective, language offers a means for children to communicate with and learn from others through interaction: language is the medium through which young children are provided cognitive, social, and emotional support in interactions with caregivers, siblings, and peers; and children characterized as dual language learners…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Sociocultural Patterns
Yang, Jing – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study investigated the durational features of English word-initial /s/+stop clusters produced by bilingual Mandarin (L1)-English (L2) children and monolingual English children and adults. The participants included two groups of five- to six-year-old bilingual children: low proficiency in the L2 (Bi-low) and high proficiency in the L2…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Prevoo, Mariëlle J. L.; Malda, Maike; Mesman, Judi; Emmen, Rosanneke A. G.; Yeniad, Nihal; Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus; Linting, Mariëlle – Journal of Child Language, 2014
When bilingual children enter formal reading education, host language proficiency becomes increasingly important. This study investigated the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), maternal language use, reading input, and vocabulary in a sample of 111 six-year-old children of first- and second-generation Turkish immigrant parents in the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language
