Publications

Publication details [#56765]

Leikin, Mark, Mila Schwartz and Victor Moin. 2012. Lexical knowledge development in the first and second languages among language-minority children: the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (5) : 549–571.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | immigrant | minority language | pre-school age | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Hebrew | Russian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This comparative study explores how bilingual versus monolingual preschool education affects lexical knowledge development in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) in second-generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrant children in Israel.