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Publication details [#66120]

MacLeod, Andrea A.N., Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, Sophie Parent, Sophie Jacques and Jean R. Séguin. 2019. Modelling vocabulary development among multilingual children prior to and following the transition to school entry. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (4) : 473–492.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | monolingualism | multilingualism | peer group | pre-school age | school | second language acquisition | sociolinguistics | vocabulary growth
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study compares vocabulary growth profiles of 106 multilingual children to 211 monolingual peers before and after school entry. Outcomes state that which languages children speak may matter more than being multilingual per se.