Second Language Phonolexical Representations in Italian First-Grade Children Enrolled in an English Immersion Program: Effects of Receptive Vocabulary and Environmental Factors.

The study investigated whether Italian child learners of English as a second language (L2) in a partial immersion program show accurate phonological representations of L2 words including challenging non-native vowels, and whether performance is related to age of onset and richness of L2 exposure, re...

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Published in:	Language Learning & Development Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 293 - 310
Main Authors:	Persici, Valentina, Nelhams, Ross Alexander, Majorano, Marinella
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2025
Subjects:	Italy Parents Human services programs Task performance Elementary schools Ability Phonetics Vocabulary Training Vowels Data analysis Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test English as a foreign language Italians Statistics Auditory perception Data analysis software
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