Second Language Acquisition in Childhood

By J. Paradis. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Dominant-language replacement: The case of international adoptees* (2009, background): “Furthermore, many of them can be categorized with simultaneous bilinguals in that they acquire two languages before the cut-off point of age three (McLaughlin, 1984: 10), but they differ from this group because their experience of acquiring each language is clearly successive.”
Interpreting the Early Language Trajectories of Children from Low SES and Language Minority Homes: Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps (2012, unknown): “Language development takes time, even for children, and children who start school with low levels of English skill do not catch up easily or quickly (Paradis, 2007; Tabors, 1997).”
Myths about Early Childhood Bilingualism (2015, background): “In a longitudinal study of ELLs in Edmonton, Canada, Paradis (2006) found that after 21 months of exposure to English, only 40% performed within the normal range for native-speakers on a test of grammatical morpheme production (e.g., the use of “s” to pluralise nouns or “-ed” to express past tense…”
English language education among young learners in East Asia: A review of current research (2004–2014) (2015, background): “The limited number of studies of Child-SLA was conducted predominantly in European languages.”
Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (2008, background): “…examines various morphosyntactic phenomena in child second language (L2) acquisition and raises important questions concerning issues such as age of first exposure and the influence of the children’s other language (for an overview of the literature on child L2 acquisition, see Paradis, 2007).”
Enhancing learning of children from diverse language backgrounds: Mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual education in the early years (2010, background): “Some children are born into home environments in which they are exposed to more than one language and they begin to acquire two primary languages simultaneously (e.g., McLaughlin, 1984).”