Anna F. Scheele|Paul Leseman|Aziza Mayo
The home language environment of monolingual and bilingual children and their language proficiency
Utrecht University|Utrecht University|Universidad de Londres
abstract study investigated relationships home language learning activities vocabulary sample monolingual native dutch n 58 bilingual immigrant moroccandutch n 46 turkishdutch n 55 3yearolds speaking tarifitberber nonscripted language turkish first language l1 respectively despite equal domain general cognitive abilities dutch children scored higher bilingual children l1 vocabulary test moroccandutch children higher second language l2 vocabulary skills compared turkishdutch children multigroup analyses revealed strong impact l1 l2 skills language specific input literate oral activities finally indications found positive crosslanguage transfer l1 l2 well competition l1 l2 input