Preschoolers learning Hmong and English: Lexical-semantic skills in L1 and L2

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 372-383

  Kan, Pui Fong ^a   Kohnert, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; ESL; Picture naming; Second language learners; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HMONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 22944482217     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/026)     Document Type: Article

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