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Parental Acculturation and Children’s Bilingual Abilities: A Study With Chinese American and Mexican American Preschool DLLs
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In: Front Psychol (2022)
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Previous studies support the link of parental acculturation to their children’s academic achievement, identity, and family relations. Prior research also suggests that parental language proficiency is associated with children’s vocabulary knowledge. However, few studies have examined the links of parental acculturation to young children’s oral language abilities. As preschool oral language skills have been shown to predict future academic achievement, it is critical to understand the relations between parental acculturation and bilingual abilities with young immigrant children. Furthermore, few studies have examined the links between parental acculturation and children’s bilingual ability among different immigrant groups who live in the same areas to understand possible similarities and differences. To address these gaps, this study examines these relations in two of the largest and fastest-growing immigrant populations in the United States, Chinese American and Mexican American families. A total of 119 dual language learners (DLLs; 64 Chinese Americans and 55 Mexican Americans) enrolled in Head Start programs in Northern California were recruited. DLLs were assessed on oral language measures in both their heritage language (HL) and English. Parental interviews were conducted to obtain parental acculturation and language proficiency. Results showed no significant group differences between Chinese American and Mexican American parents on the majority of their acculturation dimensions. Furthermore, there were no significant group differences in the bilingual abilities between Chinese American and Mexican American DLLs. Cluster analysis identified four groups of DLLs based on their bilingual ability: high language ability in both English and HL, low language ability in both, English-dominant, and HL-dominant. Results suggest that parental acculturation levels are more similar than different among the four groups. On average, parents in all four groups had stronger ties to their heritage culture and HL than to the American culture. Results also showed links between parental cultural identities and children’s language dominance. Parents of English-dominant children had significantly higher levels of American identity than the parents of children with high ability in both languages. Implications are discussed.
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Psychology
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826437/
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.761043
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Parental Acculturation and Children's Bilingual Abilities: A Study With Chinese American and Mexican American Preschool DLLs.
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Relations of English and Heritage Language Proficiency to Response Inhibition and Attention Shifting in Dual Language Learners in Head Start.
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In: Early education and development, vol 30, iss 3 (2019)
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Direct and Indirect Contributions of Executive Function to Word Decoding and Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten
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In: Learn Individ Differ (2019)
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Spoken language proficiency predicts print-speech convergence in beginning readers
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In: Neuroimage (2019)
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Narrative Assessments with First Grade Spanish-English Emergent Bilinguals: Spontaneous versus Retell Conditions
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In: Narrat Inq (2019)
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Phonological Awareness Trajectories: Young Spanish–English and Cantonese–English Bilinguals
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In: Lang Learn (2019)
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Relations of English and Heritage Language Proficiency to Response Inhibition and Attention Shifting in Dual Language Learners in Head Start
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Role of narrative skills on reading comprehension: Spanish-English and Cantonese-English Dual Language Learner
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Role of Oral Proficiency on Reading Comprehension: Within-Language and Cross-Language Relationships
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Variations on the bilingual advantage? Links of Chinese and English proficiency to Chinese American children's self-regulation.
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In: Frontiers in psychology, vol 5, iss SEP (2014)
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The language and literacy development of young dual language learners: A critical review ...
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The Language and Literacy Development of Young Dual Language Learners: A Critical Review
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Variations on the bilingual advantage? Links of Chinese and English proficiency to Chinese American children's self-regulation
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