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Kan, Pui Fong, Shirley Cheung, Ellie Winicour and Jerry Yang. 2019. Effects of home language input on the vocabulary knowledge of sequential bilingual children. Bilingualism 22 (5) : 986–1004.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
dinner conversation | home language input | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | sequential bilingual children | vocabulary growth | vocabulary growth in child language
Language as a subject
Chinese, Cantonese | English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study shows that the language employed during some home activities such as dinner and book reading significantly portended the vocabulary knowledge of sequential bilingual children who learned Cantonese as a home language (L1) and English as a second language (L2).