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Publication details [#65554]

Oller, D.Kimbrough, Linda Jarmulowicz and Todd A. Gibson. 2018. Difficulties using standardized tests to identify the receptive expressive gap in bilingual children's vocabularies. Bilingualism 21 (2) : 328–339.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | child | L2-acquisition | testing | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study states the receptive-expressive gap may be harder to valuate than formerly thought. It collates the feat of 116 6-year-old Spanish–English bilingual children in the US to 30 monolingual Spanish-speaking peers in Mexico across two Spanish-language standardized picture naming tests. Existence and size of a receptive-expressive gap mostly relied on the employed tests.