Decomposing Variation in Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension Task Performance in Spanish and English Into Person, Ecological, and Assessment Differences for Spanish-English Bilingual Children in the United States.
Purpose: We investigated the contributions of person, ecological, and assessment characteristics to one's performance on vocabulary and listening comprehension tasks in English and Spanish. Person characteristics included English learner status, ecological characteristics included instructional prog...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 10; pp. 3733 - 3748 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=180161842&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 180161842 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2024 vid: 67 iid: 10 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 180161842 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00702 ppf: 3733 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1007KB tig: atl: Decomposing Variation in Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension Task Performance in Spanish and English Into Person, Ecological, and Assessment Differences for Spanish-English Bilingual Children in the United States. aug: au: Young-Suk Grace Kim Gutierrez, Nuria Petscher, Yaacov affil: School of Education, University of California, Irvine Florida Center for Reading Research, Tallahassee Florida State University, Tallahassee su: United States Communicative competence Task performance Ecology Vocabulary Children Multilingualism in children Data analysis Phonological awareness Questionnaires Probability theory Listening Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Speech evaluation Spanish language Statistics Speech perception English language Data analysis software Auditory perception sug: subj: Communicative competence Task performance Ecology Vocabulary Children United States Multilingualism in children Data analysis Phonological awareness Questionnaires Probability theory Listening Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Speech evaluation Spanish language Statistics Speech perception English language Data analysis software Auditory perception ab: Purpose: We investigated the contributions of person, ecological, and assessment characteristics to one's performance on vocabulary and listening comprehension tasks in English and Spanish. Person characteristics included English learner status, ecological characteristics included instructional program enrollment (bilingual vs. English immersion) and poverty status, and assessment characteristics included the language of assessment (Spanish vs. English) and linguistic grain size (vocabulary vs. listening comprehension). Method: Data were from 208 Spanish-English emergent bilingual children in Grade 1 in the United States and were analyzed using explanatory item response models. Results: Substantial variance in the tasks across both languages was attributable to the random effects of assessment/item (74%) and person (26%). English learner status was a significant student predictor of language performance, and the instructional program was a significant ecological predictor of language performance. Regarding assessment characteristics, both the language of assessment and linguistic grain size explained the variance in performance. There were no differences in performance on English assessments between children in the Spanish-English bilingual program and children in the English immersion program. However, on the Spanish tasks, children in the bilingual program outperformed their peers in the English immersion program. Conclusion: These findings highlight the importance of considering not only person/child characteristics but also ecological and assessment characteristics for Spanish-English bilingual children's performance on oral language tasks. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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