Ioulia Kovelman|Stephanie Baker|Laura?Ann Petitto
Age of first bilingual language exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences|Dartmouth College|University of Toronto
age first bilingual language exposure affect reading development children learning read languages reading advantage monolingual english children educated bilingual schools studied children grades 23 ages 79 bilingual spanishenglish schools either spanishspeaking homes new english englishspeaking homes new spanish compared englishspeaking children monolingual english schools early age first bilingual language exposure positive effect reading phonological awareness language competence languages early bilinguals age first exposure 03 years outperformed bilingual groups age first exposure 36 years remarkably schooling two languages afforded children monolingual english homes advantage phoneme awareness skills early bilingual exposure best dual language reading development may afford powerful positive impact reading language development may possibly ameliorate negative effect low ses literacy age first bilingual exposure provides new tool evaluating whether young bilingual reading problem versus whether typicallydeveloping duallanguage learner