Keyonna M King, Tatiana Tchouankam, Ron Shope, Regina Idoate, Martina Clarke, Dejun Su, Patrik Johansson
Barriers and opportunities for promoting health professions careers among African American students in the Midwest
Journal of the National Medical Association
early numeracy literacy skills knowledge children acquire spontaneously independently entering school beginning formal learning knowledge essential forms basis acquisition reading arithmetic school bilingual child child fluent two languages opposed monolingual child exposed one language bilingualism found affect verbal mathematical abilities children studies focused early numeracy literacy skills preschoolers study examined connection early numeracy literacy skills among monolingual children compared bilingual children preschool three hundred two children aged 56years old recruited 74 kindergartens participants divided two groups 151 monolingual children spoke exposed one language hebrew 151 bilingual children spoke exposed two languages bilingual children spoke different languages monolingual children performed better bilingual children literacy tasks except phonological awareness differences found groups addition early numeracy tasks difference found task included linguistic knowledge number knowledge counting tasks monolingual children performed better furthermore stronger correlations found early numeracy literacy skills among monolingual group compared bilingual group study findings stress importance strengthening linguistic abilities vocabulary expansion kindergarten among populations one language spoken supporting abilities reduce gap bilingual children monolingual classmates entering school