Bilingual Development in Childhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Development

scholarly journals Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Chantal VAN DIJK ◽  
Elise VAN WONDEREN ◽  
Elly KOUTAMANIS ◽  
Gerrit Jan KOOTSTRA ◽  
Ton DIJKSTRA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Effect Size ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Uniform Method ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Language Dominance ◽  
Average Effect Size ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
Bilingual Development

Abstract Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear. In this meta-analysis, we measured the effect size of cross-linguistic influence and systematically assessed its predictors in 750 simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children in 17 unique language combinations across 26 experimental studies. We found a significant small to moderate average effect size of cross-linguistic influence, indicating that cross-linguistic influence is part and parcel of bilingual development. Language dominance, operationalized as societal language, was a significant predictor of cross-linguistic influence, whereas surface overlap, language domain and age were not. Perhaps an even more important finding was that definitions and operationalisations of cross-linguistic influence and its predictors varied considerably between studies. This could explain the absence of a comprehensive theory in the field. To solve this issue, we argue for a more uniform method of studying cross-linguistic influence.

scholarly journals The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 637-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika S. Schmid ◽  
Barbara Köpke
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Native Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
First Language Attrition ◽  
Bilingual Development

Abstract Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do not exist in isolation: they are closely linked, dependent on each other, and there is constant interaction between these different knowledge systems. Theoretical frameworks of bilingual development acknowledge this insofar as they usually draw heavily on evidence of how the native language influences subsequent languages, and how and to what degree this influence can eventually be overcome. The fact that such crosslinguistic transfer is not a one-way street, and that the native language is similarly influenced by later learned languages, on the other hand, is often disregarded. We review the evidence on how later learned languages can re-shape the L1 in the immediate and the longer term and demonstrate how such phenomena may be used to inform, challenge and validate theoretical approaches of bilingual development.

Bilingual development and bilingual outcomes

2015 ◽  
pp. 127-185
Author(s):  
Jennifer Austin ◽  
Maria Blume ◽  
Liliana Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Development

GRANNY, LOOK HERE: ENGLISH INITIATING MOVES IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN’S DIALOGICAL INTERACTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (99) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
GALINA N. CHIRSHEVA ◽  
PYOTR V. KOROVUSHKIN
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Slow Development ◽  
Bilingual Development ◽  
And Performance

The authors deal with English initiating moves in the dialogical interaction of two monoethnic bilingual children with their parents and grandparents. The objective of the paper is to describe structural and pragmatic features of initiating moves in the dialogues of the children for six years - at the age period between one and six years old. The authors argue that the quantity of English dialogical initiating moves as well as their structural and pragmatic characteristics can show the ways of childhood bilingual development and the attitude of the children to their weak language. The results of the research demonstrate that the children maintain a positive attitude to English in their interaction with adults; however, the lack of lexical and grammatical diversity of their initiating English moves is the evidence of slow development in the weak language competence and performance. Moreover, all these results clearly show that the children’s bilingualism has been gradually developing as highly unbalanced, accompanied by the traits of L2 attrition.

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