The Performance of Unilingual and Bilingual Pre-School Children on Abstract, Representational and Concrete Language Tests.

Lenskyj, Helen

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ERIC Number: EJ225555

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Publication Date: 1980

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The Performance of Unilingual and Bilingual Pre-School Children on Abstract, Representational and Concrete Language Tests.

Lenskyj, Helen

TESL Talk, v11 n2 p22-37 Spr 1980

Results of a 10-item oral language test presented only orally, orally with pictures, and orally with concrete aids replicate earlier research findings showing that bilingual children manipulate language more easily than unilinguals. Unilinguals' errors were due to incomplete development while bilinguals' were caused by that and first-language interference. (PMJ)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Interference (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Tests, Monolingualism, Preschool Children, Psycholinguistics, Verbal Ability

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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