The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses

Autor/inn/en	Sierens, Sven; Van Gorp, Koen; Slembrouck, Stef; Van Avermaet, Piet
Titel	The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 71 (2021) 2, S.453-486 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sierens, Sven) ORCID (Van Gorp, Koen) ORCID (Slembrouck, Stef) ORCID (Van Avermaet, Piet)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12441
Schlagwörter	Turkish; Indo European Languages; Listening Comprehension; Language Proficiency; Bilingualism; Linguistic Theory; Language of Instruction; Transfer of Training; Preschool Children; Grade 1; Elementary School Students; Correlation; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Sentences; Path Analysis; Child Development; Language Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Türkisch; Indoeuropäisch; Hörverständnis; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Bilingualismus; Linguistische Theorie; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Korrelation; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Pfadanalyse; Kindesentwicklung; Language test; Sprachtest
Abstract	This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and Farver's language independence hypothesis. We assessed 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual children attending Dutch-medium schools using a two-wave design. This involved an assessment of sentence comprehension when the children were in preschool, followed by an assessment of their discourse comprehension in 1st grade. Correlational, multiple regression, and path analyses indicated significant positive and medium-sized L1-L2 relationships between listening comprehension proficiency at the two points in time yet not over time. These findings were consistent with the developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis for sentence comprehension and with the developmental linguistic interdependence and the language independence hypotheses for discourse comprehension. We advocate a multidimensional explanatory framework to explore the moderating role of type of skill in determining the strength of the cross-language relationship. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01