Narrative Skills of Dual Language Learners

Narrative Skills of Dual Language Learners

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  • Author: Ulla Licandro
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3658146737
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 231

The current work follows the premise that fictional oral narratives represent socio-emotionally and academically relevant communicative practices. Two studies are presented, aiming to (1) analyze the narrative skills of preschool-age Turkish-German dual language learners (DLLs) and (2) explore a peer-assisted approach to supporting DLLs’ narrative skills in early childhood education and care. The findings relate to the influence of dual language learning on narrative production and provide emerging evidence for the effectiveness of a peer-assisted narrative intervention approach.


Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

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  • Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 0309455405
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 529

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.


Developing Narrative Comprehension

Developing Narrative Comprehension

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  • Author: Ute Bohnacker
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027260346
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.


Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context

Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context

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  • Author: Ludo Verhoeven
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027297320
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 439

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children’s first and second language are examined in several studies.


Dual Language Development & Disorders

Dual Language Development & Disorders

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  • Author: Johanne Paradis
  • Publisher: Paul H Brookes Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781681254081
  • Category : Bilingualism in children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

"Updated with the latest research, this third edition of the bestselling textbook prepares SLPs and educators to support young children who are dual language learners and make informed decisions about assessment and intervention when a disorder is present"--


A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091606
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 283

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.


Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills

Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills

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  • Author: Edy Veneziano
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027262918
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills. The first part of the Volume addresses the issue of the interrelatedness between narrative skills and literacy, language and socio-cognitive development, as well as of the impact of narrative practices on the promotion of these different skills. The second part of the Volume addresses the issue of how early interactional experiences, particular contextual settings and specific intervention procedures, can help children promote their narrative skills. The studies span a wide age range, from toddlers to late elementary school children, concern different languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian), and consider narrative skills and practices from a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.


Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

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  • Author: D. Kimbrough Oller
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853595707
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.


The Impact of Music Therapy on Children in a Multicultural Elementary School

The Impact of Music Therapy on Children in a Multicultural Elementary School

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  • Author: Sylvia Ingeborg Haering
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3658393300
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

The OECD stated in 2018 that language barriers are among the greatest obstacles to the successful inclusion of students with an immigrant background. Providing adequate instruction in the language of instruction at school, and offering learning experiences independent of the level of language skills is, therefore, an essential task of the 21st-century school systems. This book explores how music therapy can contribute to solving this challenge. It investigates the multicultural learning environment of an Italian elementary school that is characterised by students with multiple native languages and different levels of proficiency in the language of instruction. In some cases, students have difficulty following lessons and participating in social life. The children (5-8 years) receive music therapy in the experimental condition and regular school activity in the control condition according to a within-subject control group design, meaning that half the children started in the control condition and the other started in the experimental condition; they switched at the half-time point. Data on the children’s language skills and general behaviour are collected and analysed.


Narrative Skills of Limited English Proficient Mexican American Children with and Without Learning Disabilities

Narrative Skills of Limited English Proficient Mexican American Children with and Without Learning Disabilities

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  • Author: Theresa Mata-Pistokache
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168