The impact of lexical specificity training on at-risk emergent bilinguals

IF 2.4 2区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Applied Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI:10.1017/S0142716423000309

Miao Li, C. Snow, Lauren Ely, Jan C. Frijters, E. Geva, Becky Chen

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Abstract

Abstract Emergent bilinguals (EBs) who are exposed to societal language at school but use another language at home may experience difficulties in mastering the societal language, especially those at risk for language and reading disabilities. Learning phonologically specific new words that discriminate between phonemes may foster phonological awareness and word reading. This study examined the effectiveness of a lexical specificity intervention program that targeted phoneme discrimination in EBs at risk for reading disabilities. EBs who scored below the 25th percentile on the screening measures were selected and randomly assigned to one of two conditions: at-risk intervention or at-risk control. Of the 76 EBs in the at-risk group, 40 were randomly assigned to receive the intervention. A group of 51 typically developing EBs who did not meet the risk criteria were selected as typical controls. The pre- and post-tests include phoneme discrimination, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, fluency, and decoding. The at-risk intervention group showed improvement on the phoneme discrimination task after the intervention and outperformed the at-risk control group but not the typical control group. In addition, growth was observed during both the training and testing sessions of the intervention. The lexical specificity intervention could be a good resource to enhance a key precursor to literacy development for at-risk EBs.

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词汇特异性训练对高危突发性双语者的影响

在学校接触社会语言而在家中使用另一种语言的新兴双语者在掌握社会语言方面可能会遇到困难，特别是那些有语言和阅读障碍风险的人。学习区分音素的音系特定的新词可以培养音系意识和单词阅读能力。本研究考察了针对有阅读障碍风险的EBs音素歧视的词汇特异性干预方案的有效性。选择在筛查措施中得分低于25百分位的EBs，并随机分配到两种情况中的一种:风险干预或风险控制。在高危组的76名EBs中，有40人被随机分配接受干预。51名不符合风险标准的典型发展中的EBs被选为典型对照。前测试和后测试包括音素辨别、语音意识、快速自动命名、流利性和解码。干预后，高危干预组在音素辨别任务上有所改善，表现优于高危对照组，但优于典型对照组。此外，在干预的训练和测试期间都观察到生长。词汇特异性干预可能是一个很好的资源，以提高识字发展的关键前兆的风险EBs。

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Applied Psycholinguistics Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language. It examines language development , language use and language disorders in adults and children with a particular emphasis on cross-language studies. The journal gathers together the best work from a variety of disciplines including linguistics, psychology, reading, education, language learning, speech and hearing, and neurology. In addition to research reports, theoretical reviews will be considered for publication as will keynote articles and commentaries.