Grammatical Number in Arabic-English Bilingual Children

Autor/inn/en	Bassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh
Titel	Grammatical Number in Arabic-English Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9 (2023) 2, S. 170-185Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bassil Mashaqba) ORCID (Anas Huneety) ORCID (Abdallah Alshdaifat) ORCID (Wafa'a Abu Aisheh)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Grammar; Arabic; Language Acquisition; Accuracy; Morphemes; Bilingualism; Monolingualism; Second Language Learning; Cross Cultural Studies; English (Second Language); Language Processing; Nouns; Age Differences; Productivity; Code Switching (Language); Foreign Countries; Language Patterns; Form Classes (Languages); Teaching Methods; Child Language; Arabs; North Americans; Contrastive Linguistics; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Transfer of Training; Children; Preschool Children; Native Language; Jordan; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Arabisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphem; Bilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Produktivität; Ausland; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Analytischer Sprachbau; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Arab; Araber; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; USA
Abstract	This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and naturally occurring communications. Although bilingual children's accuracy in plural processing demonstrated an age-related improvement, the findings reported a notable delay in plural form acquisition within the bilingual age-related trajectories. Transparency, frequency, and productivity contributed to shape the acquisition patterns of plural form among 5-7-years-old children, while predictability becomes a salient factor for the older trajectories. The study also highlighted the productivity of bilingual children to employ the feminine sound plural (FSP) as a default mechanism in generating diverse plural nouns. Prominent strategies in producing plural forms by bilingual children encompassed over-generalization of the FSP, code-switching between plural patterns, and utilization of the English plural morpheme [-s] and English quantifiers. The study, therefore, concludes that children predominantly adopt a single route mechanism during the processing of the inflectional system. Finally, the study offers noteworthy pedagogical implications pertinent to the instruction of Arabic-English bilingual children. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Anafartalar Campus Faculty of Education Department of Foreign Language Education, Canakkale 07100, Turkey. e-mail: editor@ejal.info; Website: https://ejal.info/
Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2025/3/08