The performance of L2 French children on the LITMUS-QU Nonword repetition task during their first year of exposure: impact of age, vocabulary size, verbal-short term memory and phonological awareness

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Letícia Almeida, Christophe Coupé
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Abstract

In this study, we describe the performance of 62 newly immigrated children to France at a nonword repetition task (LITMUS-QU-NWR-FR) designed to evaluate bilingual children’s syllable structure. Children were between 6;0 and 9;1 and had diverse language backgrounds. They participated in our study during their first year of exposure to French. The majority of our children exhibited a good performance on the task. The variation observed is related to: (i) the properties of the nonwords: items with complex syllables are more difficult, as are items with three syllables in length; (ii) phonological awareness: children with a more developed L2 phonological awareness perform better at the task; and (iii) receptive vocabulary size: children with a larger L2 vocabulary size perform better at the task. Overall, our findings provide support for the argument that the LITMUS-QU-NWR-FR task can be used shortly after the onset of exposure to the L2.

法语二语儿童第一年在LITMUS-QU非单词重复任务中的表现:年龄、词汇量、短期记忆和语音意识的影响
在这项研究中,我们描述了62名新移民到法国的儿童在非单词重复任务(LITMUS-QU-NWR-FR)中的表现,该任务旨在评估双语儿童的音节结构。这些孩子的年龄在6岁到9岁之间,语言背景各异。他们在学习法语的第一年就参加了我们的研究。我们的大多数孩子在任务中表现良好。所观察到的变化与:(i)非词的性质有关:具有复杂音节的项目更难,长度为三个音节的项目也是如此;(ii)语音意识:第二语言语音意识越发达的儿童在任务中的表现越好;接受性词汇量:第二语言词汇量大的孩子在任务中表现得更好。总的来说,我们的研究结果支持这样的观点,即litmus - q - nwr - fr任务可以在L2接触开始后不久使用。
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