Heritage language learners of English: Linguistic gaps and cognitive strengths.
This study examined whether Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) of English display profile effects in their performance on knowledge- and processing-dependent measures relative to the standardised mean scores of monolingual speakers. The study also investigated the influence of several experiential fa...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 873 - 885 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2023
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