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ERIC Number: EJ450579
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Measuring Bilingual Children's Receptive Vocabularies.
Umbel, Vivian M.; And Others
Child Development, v63 n4 p1012-20 Aug 1992
Hispanic first graders who spoke only Spanish at home (OSH) and those who spoke English and Spanish at home (ESH) performed near the mean on a Spanish adaptation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R). The ESH children scored higher than OSH children on the PPVT-R. (BC)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, English, Hispanic Americans, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Primary Education, Spanish, Vocabulary
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Florida (Dade County); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes Peabody (Dunn)