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Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language : converging evidence from multiple datasets
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Dixon, Chris, Hessel, Annina, Smith, Natalie, Nielsen, Dea, Wesierska, Marta and Oxley, Emily (2023) Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language : converging evidence from multiple datasets. Journal of Child Language, 50 (3). pp. 610-631. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000071 ISSN 0305-0009.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000071
Abstract
Children learning English as an additional language (EAL) are a diverse and growing group of pupils in England's schools. Relative to their monolingual (ML) peers, these children tend to show lower receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge in English, although interpretation of findings is limited by small and heterogeneous samples. In an effort to increase representativeness and power, the present study combined published and unpublished datasets from six cross-sectional and four longitudinal studies investigating the vocabulary development of 434 EAL learners and 342 ML peers (age range: 4;9-11;5) in 42 primary schools. Multilevel modelling confirmed previous findings of significantly lower English vocabulary scores of EAL learners and some degree of convergence in receptive but not expressive knowledge by the end of primary school. Evidence for narrowing of the gap in receptive knowledge was found only in datasets spanning a longer developmental period, hinting at the protracted nature of this convergence.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bilingualism , Bilingualism in children , English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers , Vocabulary , English language -- Word frequency, Second language acquisition -- Psychological aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Child Language | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0305-0009 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 610-631 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0305000922000071 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 May 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 May 2022 |
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