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Ruiz-Felter, Roxanna; Cooperson, Solaman J.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Although some investigations of phonological development have found that segmental accuracy is comparable in monolingual children and their bilingual peers, there is evidence that language use affects segmental accuracy in both languages. Aims: To investigate the influence of age of first exposure to English and the amount of current…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Kindergarten, Young Children, Bilingual Students
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Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Kester, Ellen S. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Significant progress has been made in the identification of language impairment in children are bilingual. Bilingual children's vocabulary knowledge may be distributed across languages. Thus, when testing bilingual children it is difficult to know how to weigh each language for diagnostic purposes. Even when conceptual scoring is used…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Vocabulary Development, Test Validity