Lexical Knowledge of Monolingual and Bilingual Children.

Verhallen, Marianne; Schoonen, Rob

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ERIC Number: EJ479554

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Lexical Knowledge of Monolingual and Bilingual Children.

Verhallen, Marianne; Schoonen, Rob

Applied Linguistics, v14 n4 p344-63 Dec 1993

To study lexical knowledge relevant for school success, 40 monolingual Dutch and 40 bilingual Turkish 9 and 11-year olds were asked to explain the meanings of common Dutch nouns in an extended word definition task. Compared to the monolingual Dutch children, the bilingual Turkish children allotted less extensive and varied meanings to Dutch words. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Skills, Monolingualism, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Turkish, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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IES Cited: ED497258

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