Turkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden: Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary production

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dc.contributor.authorBohnacker, Ute
dc.contributor.authorLindgren, Josefin
dc.contributor.authorÖztekin, Buket
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-15T21:30:58Z
dc.date.available2016-11-15T21:30:58Z
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates vocabulary production in the minority home languages of 40 Turkish-Swedish and 38 German-Swedish bilingual preschoolers aged 4;0–6;11, growing up in Sweden. We explore how age, SES, and exposure via mother-tongue instruction and home language use in the family affect child vocabulary skills. This has not previously been investigated in Sweden. Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs; Haman, Łuniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) were used to test noun and verb production in Turkish and German. Background information was collected using a parental questionnaire. The two bilingual groups performed equally well in their respective home languages, Turkish and German. There were no effects of age, socio-economic status (SES) or mother-tongue instruction on vocabulary. However, input in the home setting had a clear effect. Children whose parents used the home language to the child and to each other had significantly higher vocabulary production scores. Having additional home-language input providers such as friends also affected the scores. These results from a Swedish context echo findings from studies of other language combinations and reveal the importance of input for the development of expressive vocabulary.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.16993/jhlr.26
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/12907
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/792
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightscc-byen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectBilingualen
dc.subjectCLT (Cross-linguistic Lexical Task)en
dc.subjectGermanen
dc.subjectinputen
dc.subjectpreschoolersen
dc.subjectSwedishen
dc.subjectTurkishen
dc.subjectvocabularyen
dc.titleTurkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden: Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary productionen
dc.typeJournal Article
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