Developmental Psychology

Bilingual Language Skills

Bilingual Language Skills


Bilingual Language Skills

Read the latest research on bilingual language skills from our child development journals and learn about the benefits on executive function and more!

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Child healthcare nurses believe that bilingual children show slower language development, simplify screening procedures and delay referrals
Acta Paediatrica

Teachers' Ratings of Working Memory in English Language Learners: Do Laboratory Measures Predict Classroom Analogues?
Applied Cognitive Psychology

Parent–child interaction: Does parental language matter?
British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Language-related values, reading amount, and reading comprehension in students with migration backgrounds
British Journal of Educational Psychology

Motivation, strategy, and English as a foreign language vocabulary learning: A structural equation modelling study
British Journal of Educational Psychology

Measurement Issues: Assessing language skills in young children
Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Age of Bilingual Exposure Is Related to the Contribution of Phonological and Semantic Knowledge to Successful Reading Development
Child Development

Language Use Contributes to Expressive Language Growth: Evidence From Bilingual Children
Child Development

Novel Word Learning in Bilingual and Monolingual Infants: Evidence for a Bilingual Advantage
Child Development

Special Issue: Systematic Effects of Bilingualism on Children's Development
Developmental Science

English as a Foreign Language in Bilingual Language-minority Children, Children with Dyslexia and Monolingual Typical Readers
Dyslexia

Effects of sex and proficiency in second language processing as revealed by a large-scale fNIRS study of school-aged children
Human Brain Mapping

How bilingualism shapes the functional architecture of the brain: A study on executive control in early bilinguals and monolinguals
Human Brain Mapping

Vois-Tu Le Kem? Do You See the Bos? Foreign Word Learning at 14 Months
Infancy

Language learning from inconsistent input: Bilingual and monolingual toddlers compared
Infant and Child Development

Early language input and later reading development in Chinese as heritage language (CHL) learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Introducing very young children to English as a foreign language
International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Assessment of language impairment in bilingual children using semantic tasks: two languages classify better than one
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

Practitioner Review: Multilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders – an overview of recent research and discussion of clinical implications
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Latino Students' Transition to Middle School: Role of Bilingual Education and School Ethnic Context
Journal of Research on Adolescence

The Language of Learning: The Academic Engagement of Newcomer Immigrant Youth
Journal of Research on Adolescence

Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Down Syndrome: Insights From a Case Study
Language Learning

Traces of Memory for a Lost Childhood Language: The Savings Paradigm Expanded
Language Learning

Solving the Puzzle about Early Belief-Ascription
Mind & Language

Bilingualism: Research and Policy
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

The role of executive functions in bilingual children with reading difficulties
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Exploring the Bidirectionality of Emotion Understanding and Classroom Behavior with Spanish- and English-speaking Preschoolers Attending Head Start
Social Development

Language and the Development of Cognitive Control
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