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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 630 - 643 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=90496030&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 90496030 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: Apr2013 vid: 56 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 90496030 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0079) ppf: 630 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Effects on Verbal Working Memory and Vocabulary: Testing Language- Minority Children With an Immigrant Background. aug: au: Engel de Abreu, Pascale M. J. Baldassi, Martine Puglisi, Marina L. Befi-Lopes, Debora M. Oetting, Janna affil: University of Luxembourg Columbia University, Center for Decision Sciences, New York, NY University of São Paulo, Brazil su: 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 sug: subj: Analysis of variance Cognition Immigrants Cultural pluralism Psychological tests Vocabulary Case-control method Children Luxembourg Portugal Neuropsychological tests Research funding Speech evaluation T-test (Statistics) Multilingualism in children Short-term memory in children Descriptive statistics keyword: bilingualism cognition cultural and linguistic diversity language memory bilingualism cognition cultural and linguistic diversity language memory ab: 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 first (L1)- and second-language (L2) vocabulary (comprehension and production), executive- loaded working memory (counting recall and backward digit recall), and verbal short-term memory (digit recall and nonword repetition). Cross-linguistic task performance was compared within individuals. The language-minority children were also compared with multilingual language-majority children from Luxembourg and Portuguese-speaking monollnguals from Brazil without an immigrant background matched on age, sex, socioeconomic status, and nonverbal reasoning. Results: Results showed that (a) verbal working memory measures involving numerical memoranda were relatively independent of test language and cultural status; (b) language status had an impact on the repetition of high- but not on low-wordlike L2 nonwords; (c) large cross-linguistic and cross-cultural effects emerged for productive vocabulary; (d) cross-cultural effects were less pronounced for vocabulary comprehension with no differences between groups if only L1 words relevant to the home context were considered. Conclusion: The study indicates that linguistic and cognitive assessments for language-minority children require careful choice among measures to ensure valid results. Implications for testing culturally and linguistically diverse children are discussed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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