Reading to Bilingual Preschoolers: An Experimental Study of Two Book Formats

Autor/inn/en	Brouillard, Melanie; Dubé, Daphnée; Byers-Heinlein, Krista
Titel	Reading to Bilingual Preschoolers: An Experimental Study of Two Book Formats
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 31 (2022) 3, (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brouillard, Melanie) ORCID (Dubé, Daphnée) ORCID (Byers-Heinlein, Krista)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.2294
Schlagwörter	English; French; Books; Reading Materials; Childrens Literature; Multilingual Materials; Vocabulary; Bilingualism; Preschool Children; Preschool Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English language; Englisch; Französisch; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Multilingualism; Materials; Mehrsprachiges Wörterbuch; Wortschatz; Bilingualismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	Reading stories to children provides opportunities for word learning. Bilingual children, however, encounter new words in each of their languages during shared storybook reading, and the way in which these words are presented can vary. We compared learning from two types of bilingual book materials: single-language books and bilingual books. Five-year-old English-French bilinguals (n = 67) were randomly assigned to hear an original story from a balanced bilingual experimenter in one of the two book formats. Children's learning of English and French labels for five novel objects embedded in the story was assessed via a pointing task. Children were successful at learning words in both languages, and performance was not affected by book format nor children's language proficiency. These results suggest that children are flexible word learners and that shared book reading -- regardless of book format -- is an effective way to teach bilingual children new words in two languages. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01