Publications

Publication details [#48945]

Scheffner Hammer, Carol, Frank R. Lawrence and Adele W. Miccio. 2008. Exposure to English Before and After Entry into Head Start : Bilingual Children's Receptive Language Growth in Spanish and English. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (1) : 30–56.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | language, comprehension of | pre-school age | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores the Spanish and English receptive vocabulary growth and language comprehension skills of bilingual preschoolers who attended Head Start over a two-year period.