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Publication details [#28382]

Wu, Hsin-Feng, Jeanne M. De Temple, Jane A. Herman and Catherine E. Snow. 1994. "L´animal qui fait oink! Oink!": Bilingual children´s oral and written picture descriptions in English and French under varying instructions. Discourse Processes 18 (2) : 141–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | child | description, processing of | pictorial co-text | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper compares children's performance on various picture description tasks in French, their language of limited use, to their performance on the same tasks in their language of broader use, i.e. English and examines the effect of home language environments on children's overall linguistic performance.