Is Oral Bilingualism an Advantage for Word Learning in Children With Hearing Loss?

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether oral bilingualism could be an advantage for children with hearing loss when learning new words. Method: Twenty monolingual and 13 bilingual children with hearing loss were compared with each other and with 20 monolingual and 20 bilingual chil...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 965 - 979
Autores principales: Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz de, Pittman, Andrea, Restrepo, María Adelaida
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2021
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          Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz de
          Pittman, Andrea
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          Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ.
          Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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        Human research subjects
        Learning
        Informed consent (Medical law)
        Vocabulary
        Auditory perception testing
        Speech perception
        Hearing disorders in children
        Otoscopy
        Multilingualism in children
        Surveys
        Audiometry
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        Statistical correlation
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          Human research subjects
          Learning
          Informed consent (Medical law)
          Vocabulary
          Auditory perception testing
          Speech perception
          Hearing disorders in children
          Otoscopy
          Multilingualism in children
          Surveys
          Audiometry
          Questionnaires
          Descriptive statistics
          Statistical correlation
      ab: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether oral bilingualism could be an advantage for children with hearing loss when learning new words. Method: Twenty monolingual and 13 bilingual children with hearing loss were compared with each other and with 20 monolingual and 20 bilingual children with normal hearing on receptive vocabulary and on three word-learning tasks containing nonsense words in familiar (English and Spanish) and unfamiliar (Arabic) languages. We measured word learning on the day of the training and retention the next day using an auditory recognition task. Analyses of covariance were used to compare performance on the word learning tasks by language group (monolingual vs. bilingual) and hearing status (normal hearing vs. hearing loss), controlling for age and maternal education. Results: No significant differences were observed between monolingual and bilingual children with and without hearing loss in any of the word-learning task. Children with hearing loss performed more poorly than their hearing peers in Spanish word retention and Arabic word learning and retention. Conclusions: Children with hearing loss who grew up being exposed to Spanish did not show higher or lower wordlearning abilities than monolingual children with hearing loss exposed to English only. Therefore, oral bilingualism was neither an advantage nor a disadvantage for word learning. Hearing loss negatively affected performance in monolingual and bilingual children when learning words in languages other than English (the dominant language). Monolingual and bilingual children with hearing loss are equally at risk for word-learning difficulties and vocabulary size matters for word learning.
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