Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Effects on Verbal Working Memory and Vocabulary: Testing Language- Minority Children With an Immigrant Background.

Purpose: In this study, the authors explored the impact of test language and cultural status on vocabulary and working memory performance in multilingual language-minority children. Method: Twenty 7-year-old Portuguese-speaking immigrant children living in Luxembourg completed several assessments of...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 630 - 643
Main Authors:	Engel de Abreu, Pascale M. J., Baldassi, Martine, Puglisi, Marina L., Befi-Lopes, Debora M., Oetting, Janna
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Apr2013
Subjects:	Luxembourg Portugal Analysis of variance Cognition Immigrants Cultural pluralism Psychological tests Vocabulary Case-control method Children Neuropsychological tests Research funding Speech evaluation T-test (Statistics) Multilingualism in children Short-term memory in children Descriptive statistics
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