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Magdalena Luniewska; Magdalena Krysztofiak; Weronika Bialek; Martyna Burdach; Ewa Komorowska; Grzegorz Krajewski; Judyta Pacewicz; Julia Radzikowska; Nina Gram Garmann; Ewa Haman – First Language, 2025
Vocabulary assessment is an important part of measuring language proficiency in both monolingual and bilingual children. The LITMUS Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLT) provides a framework for assessing the vocabulary of monolingual and bilingual children using a standardized procedure and comparable stimuli across languages. All language…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
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Kidd, Evan; Garcia, Rowena – First Language, 2022
A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and the next 50 years represents the last chance we have to document acquisition in many of them. Here, we take stock of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Maintenance
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Formosa, Jennifer; Little, Sabine – First Language, 2023
This qualitative, exploratory research study is positioned within the field of Family Language Policy (FLP). Contextualised in bilingual Malta, where Maltese is the majority language, the study inquires into the effects of a plurilingual family language programme on the language ideologies within English-speaking Maltese families. The programme…
Descriptors: Native Language, Family Programs, Family Relationship, Language Usage