The language and literacy development of young dual language learners: A critical review

CS Hammer, E Hoff, Y Uchikoshi, C Gillanders… - Early childhood …, 2014 - Elsevier
The number of children living in the United States who are learning two languages is
increasing greatly. However, relatively little research has been conducted on the language …

The bilingual child

L Serratrice - The handbook of bilingualism and multilingualism, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which the two independent grammatical systems of a bilingual child may
actually interact has been the focus of much investigation since the late 1990s after more …

Language sample measures and language ability in Spanish-English bilingual kindergarteners

LM Bedore, ED Pena, RB Gillam, TH Ho - Journal of communication …, 2010 - Elsevier
Measures of productivity and sentence organization are useful metrics for quantifying
language development and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual children. It …

Telling stories in two languages: Narratives of bilingual preschool children with typical and impaired language

P Iluz-Cohen, J Walters - Bilingualism: language and cognition, 2012 - cambridge.org
Two studies investigated five-and six-year-old preschool children's narrative production in
an attempt to show how LI may im**e on narrative production in measurable ways. Study …

A culturally and linguistically responsive vocabulary approach for young Latino dual language learners

LI Méndez, ER Crais, DC Castro… - Journal of Speech …, 2015 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose This study examined the role of the language of vocabulary instruction in promoting
English vocabulary in preschool Latino dual language learners (DLLs). The authors …

Do early literacy skills in children's first language promote development of skills in their second language? An experimental evaluation of transfer.

JM Goodrich, CJ Lonigan… - Journal of Educational …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cross-language transfer of the emergent
literacy skills of preschoolers who were Spanish-speaking language-minority children in the …

Language-independent and language-specific aspects of early literacy: An evaluation of the common underlying proficiency model.

JM Goodrich, CJ Lonigan - Journal of educational psychology, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
According to the common underlying proficiency model (Cummins, 1981), as children
acquire academic knowledge and skills in their first language, they also acquire language …

Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: a comparison of language-minority and monolingual-English children.

CJ Lonigan, JAM Farver, J Nakamoto… - Developmental …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
This study utilized latent growth-curve analyses to determine if the early literacy skills of
children who were Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) followed a similar quantitative …

Predictors of second language acquisition in Latino children with specific language impairment

V Gutiérrez-Clellen, G Simon-Cereijido… - American Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose This study evaluated the extent to which the language of intervention, the child's
development in Spanish, and the effects of English vocabulary, use, proficiency, and …

Examining language and early numeracy skills in young Latino dual language learners

LI Méndez, CS Hammer, LM Lopez, C Blair - Early Childhood Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examined the association of oral language, including expressive vocabulary and
grammar comprehension, with early numeracy skills within and across languages in …