ERIC Number: EJ1027496
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1088-8438
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Children's Expressive Language Skills and Their Impact on the Relation between First-and Second-Language Phonological Awareness Skills
Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M.
Scientific Studies of Reading, v18 n2 p114-129 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the cross-language relations between the phonological awareness (PA) skills of preschool children learning more than one language are dependent upon their first-and second-language oral language skills. Four hundred sixty-six Spanish-speaking language minority children participated in this study. Results indicated that the relation between children's first-and second-language PA skills varied as a function of their first-and second-language oral language skills. This effect was language specific such that only oral language skills in the same language as the PA outcome moderated the relations between children's first-and second-language PA skills. This study helps extend findings from prior research on the cross-language transfer of PA.
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Preschool Children, Phonological Awareness, Language Research, Spanish Speaking, Language Minorities, English (Second Language), Correlation, Disadvantaged Youth, Models, Emergent Literacy, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Scores
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Preschool Language Scale
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