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Direct linkMohammad Hammoud; Ola Al Samhoury; Maha Shuayb; Maurice Crul – International Review of Education, 2025
This article examines the determinants of Syrian refugee students' language comprehension difficulties in Lebanon, Türkiye and Australia, three host countries offering refugees different types of legal status (short-term, medium-term and long-term legal settlement). To understand the influence of legal status and its corresponding educational…
Descriptors: Refugees, Children, Child Language, Middle School Students
Susan Logue; Christina Sevdali; Raffaella Folli; Juliana Gerard – Journal of Child Language, 2025
Factors which impact bilingual language development can often interact with different language features. The current study teases apart the impact of internal and external factors (chronological age, length of exposure, L2 richness, L2 use at home, maternal education and maternal L2 proficiency) across linguistic domains and features (vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Svetlana Kapalková; Kamila Polišenská; Andrej Mentel; Tereza Horská; Monika Janíková; Martina Zubáková – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background and Aims: The aim of the current study is to assess the validity of the Cross-linguistic lexical task (CLT) against direct and indirect measures of lexical skills across 2-6 years of age, for a crucial period of lexical development. In addition to evaluating relationships between measures at the level of total score, we also explored…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Lexicology
Elly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025
This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Feiwen Xiao; Ellen Wenting Zou; Jiaju Lin; Zhaohui Li; Dandan Yang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Large language model (LLM)-based conversational agents (CAs), with their advanced generative capabilities and human-like conversational interfaces, can serve as reading partners for children during dialogic reading and have shown promise in enhancing children's comprehension and conversational skills. However, there is limited research on the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Electronic Books, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Kassahun Weldemariam – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Numerous studies indicate that the language and literacy development of young children is highly contingent upon the construction of an enriching home literacy environment. Using sociocultural theory as a framework, in this article I explore how a bilingual child's language and literacy acquisition is embedded as a social practice within the home…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Literacy, Bilingualism
