Publications

Publication details [#50005]

Snow, Catherine, Diane August, Anna Szuber, Elisabeth Duursma, Silvia Romero-Contreras, Patrick Proctor and Margarita Calderón. 2007. The role of home literacy and language environment on bilinguals' English and Spanish vocabulary development. Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (1) : 171–190.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | context | reading comprehension | school | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores how the home and school literacy environment affect vocabulary development and reading achievement among the bilingual English-Spanish school population in the U.S.