Browsing Humanitats by Author "Gottardo, Alexandra"
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Age, experience and language and literacy skills in english-arabic speaking syrian refugees
Gottardo, Alexandra; Al-Janaideh, Redab; Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Amin, Norah (Languages, 2023)Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition. The present study ... -
How language environment, age and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2020)Research on the bilingual development of refugee children is limited, despite this group having distinct characteristics and migration experiences that could impact language development. This study ... -
Morphosyntactic development in first generation arabic- english children: the effect of cognitive, age, and input factors over time and across languages
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (Languages, 2020)This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6–13) within their first three ...