Depth and breadth of vocabulary in two languages: Which vocabulary skills transfer?

By C. Ordóñez, María S. Carlo, Catherine E. Snow, B. Mclaughlin. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The Intriguing Role of Spanish Language Vocabulary Knowledge in Predicting English Reading Comprehension. (2006, background): “These studies point to the potential for transfer between L1 and L2 oral language skills (Carlisle & Beeman, 2001; Ordoñez et al., 2002) as well as from L1 oral language proficiency to L2 reading comprehension (Jiménez et al.”
Dual Language Abilities of Bilingual Four-Year Olds: Initial Findings from the Early Childhood Study of Language and Literacy Development of Spanish-Speaking Children. (2003, background): “This inverse relationship between English and Spanish vocabulary has been found in current research dealing with the topic of depth and breadth of vocabulary in these two languages ( Ordonez, Carlo, Snow & McLaughlin, 2002 ).”
Native Spanish-speaking children reading in English : Toward a model of comprehension (2005, background): “Studies have shown that, beyond transfer effects of phonemic and phonological awareness, various components of vocabulary knowledge are also transferable across language (e.g., Nagy et al., 1993; Ordoñez et al., 2002).”
Understanding Depth of Vocabulary Online With Bilingual and Monolingual Children (2009, background): “Although breadth of vocabulary has been shown to be negatively correlated across bilingual learners’ languages, studies that have examined morphological depth among bilingual and biliterate children have shown positive associations among Spanish and English and among Chinese and English (Ordonez, Ca”
Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships (2009, background): “Although there have been a few studies that have analyzed the hypernymic knowledge of bilingual speakers (Defour & Kroll, 1995; Ordonez et al., 2002; Sharifian, 2002) and L2 learners (Ijaz, 1986; Levenston & Blum, 1977), to our knowledge no study has investigated the idea that as L2 learners acquire”
The Interdependence Continuum: A Perspective on the Nature of Spanish–English Bilingual Reading Comprehension (2010, background): “Ordonez, Carlo, Snow, and McLaughlin (2002 ), for example, reported a −.”