The Roles of Age, Attitude, and Use in First Language Development and Attrition of Turkish-English Bilinguals

Autor/inn/en	Schmid, Monika S.; Karayayla, Tugba
Titel	The Roles of Age, Attitude, and Use in First Language Development and Attrition of Turkish-English Bilinguals
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 70 (2020), S.54-84 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schmid, Monika S.) ORCID (Karayayla, Tugba)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12361
Schlagwörter	Predictor Variables; Bilingual Education; Bilingualism; Language Acquisition; Turkish; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Bilingual Students; Adults; Age Differences; Language Proficiency; Cultural Influences; Retention (Psychology); Lexicology; Morphology (Languages); Semantics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prädiktor; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Bilingualismus; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Türkisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Merkfähigkeit; Lexikologie; Morphology; Morphologie; Semantik
Abstract	Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and behavioral factors. We investigate the predictors that shape, drive, and constrain the development of the first language (L1) of bilinguals, focusing on 92 Turkish-English bilingual adults with a wide range (0-42) of age at onset (AaO). We tested their productive command of L1 lexical, morphological, and syntactic features, investigating to what extent background variables relating to AaO, experience, and attitudes toward the Turkish language and culture predict the relative level of proficiency across these features. To obtain a comprehensive picture of the interaction of these linguistic and extralinguistic factors, we employed structural equation modeling. We show that for speakers with younger AaOs, exposure-related factors are associated with the level of L1 proficiency they retain as adults; for later bilinguals, exposure-related factors matter less. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01