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Publication details [#55514]

Dixon, L. Quentin. 2011. The role of home and school factors in predicting English vocabulary among bilingual kindergarten children in Singapore. Applied Psycholinguistics 32 (1) : 141–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | context | kindergarten | second language acquisition | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English | Malay | Tamil

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that both home factors -involving caretaker and television language, and mother tongue vocabulary-, and school factors -cfr. kindergarten curriculum emphasis-, appear to be significant predictors of English vocabulary knowledge among 284 bilingual kindergartners (168 Chinese, 65 Malay, 51 Indian) in the multilingual Singaporean context.