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Sources of individual differences in child bilinguals: Going beyond the “usual suspects”| title | Sources of individual differences in child bilinguals: Going beyond the “usual suspects” |
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| start_date | 2024/05/21 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle H432 |
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| details | Série de 4 séminaires sur le thème "Bilingualism in Children with Typical and Atypical Development". |
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| summary | Bilingual children are more heterogenous in their language abilities than monolingual children – this has been found for both the second language and the heritage language. Bilingual children also have more potential sources of individual differences than monolingual children, and some sources, like family socio-economic status, show a more complicated pattern of influence on language development in bilinguals. In this lecture, I will present a model of individual difference factors in bilingual development: child-internal, child-external (proximal) and child-external (distal) (Paradis, 2023). I will discuss the research over the past decade examining the role of these factors in accounting for variation in bilingual children’s language abilities in the L2 and the HL, as well the theoretical and applied implications of the findings. I will show that the range of potential individual difference factors goes far beyond the “usual suspects” of quantity of input and age of acquisition. Finally, this lecture will give special attention to a unique group of child bilinguals – first-generation refugee children - whose pre-migration adversity and mental health and wellbeing are associated with challenges in their bilingual development (Paradis et al., 2022). The global number of child refugees has doubled since 2010, while the number of non-refugee child migrants has only risen 10% in the same period (Unicef, 2023). Therefore, it is necessary to understand more about the language development of refugee children in host countries separately from that of other bilingual children. |
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| responsibles | Hemforth |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/04/17 14:48 UTC |
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