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SRCLD Presentation Details
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Non-word repetition and Fast Mapping in L1 and L2 by Young Sequential Bilinguals |
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Pui Fong Kan - University of Minnesota
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Kohnert Kathryn - University of Minnesota
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| SRCLD Year: |
2005 |
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Poster Presentation |
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Language-based processing-dependent measures have received attention as potentially non-biased alternatives to traditional experience-dependent measures for the purpose of identifying language impairment in culturally or linguistically diverse learners. For measures to be “non-biased” for children in the process of learning a second language, task performance must be relatively independent of overall proficiency in the test language. In this study, we investigated performance on language-based processing tasks in both languages of typically developing three to five-year old children learning Hmong (L1) and English (L2). Experimental tasks were non-word repetition (NWR) and Fast mapping (FM). Correlation and regression analyses were used to investigate potential relationships between performance in L1 and L2 on these measures, as well as to determine the overall contribution of proficiency in a specific language (indexed by story telling and vocabulary measures) on NWR and FM performance. Results indicated small to medium correlations between performance in L1 and L2 for both NWR and FM. However, the greatest predictor of performance on each task was overall proficiency in the test language. |
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