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The measure matters: Language dominance profiles across measures in Spanish–English bilingual children
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The purpose of this study was to determine if different language measures resulted in the same classifications of language dominance and proficiency for a group of bilingual pre-kindergarteners and kindergarteners. Data were analyzed for 1029 Spanish-English bilingual pre-kindergarteners who spanned the full range of bilingual language proficiency. Parent questionnaires were used to quantify age of first exposure and current language use. Scores from a short test of semantic and morphosyntactic development in Spanish and English were used to quantify children's performance. Some children who were in the functionally monolingual range based on interview data demonstrated minimal knowledge of their other languages when tested. Current use accounted for more of the variance in language dominance than did age of first exposure. Results indicate that at different levels of language exposure children differed in their performance on semantic and morphosyntax tasks. These patterns suggest that it may be difficult to compare the results of studies that employ different measures of language dominance and proficiency. Current use is likely to be a useful metric of bilingual development that can be used to build a comprehensive picture of child bilingualism.
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“This finding aligns with the existing literature (e.g., Bedore et al., 2012; Hoff et al., 2012) which found that greater exposure to L2 English significantly enhanced young bilingual children's acquisition of vocabulary, grammatical complexity, and MLU33 in English.”
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- Authors
- BEDORE, L. M., PEÑA, E. D., SUMMERS, C. L., BOERGER, K. M., RESENDIZ, M. D., GREENE, K., BOHMAN, T. M., & GILLAM, R. B.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- The University of Texas at El Paso (US)
- Utah State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- BEDORE, LISA M.
- Venue
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2012-03-20
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 616-629
- ISSN
- 1366-7289 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1841
- PMC
- PMC3615884
- OpenAlex
- W2027266261
- Cited by
- 365
- References
- 72
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- FWCI
- 31.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Bilingualism Language and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC007439)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Keywords
- language dominance, Spanish-English bilingual children, age of first exposure, semantic development, morphosyntactic development, language measures, bilingual language acquisition, preschool children
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