Adèle Lafrance|Alexandra Gottardo
A longitudinal study of phonological processing skills and reading in bilingual children
University of Toronto|Wilfrid Laurier University
frenchenglish bilingual children n 40 french language schools participated 8month longitudinal study relation phonological processing skills reading french english participants administered measures phonological awareness working memory naming speed reading languages results concurrent analyses show phonological awareness skills french english uniquely predictive reading performance languages accounting influences cognitive ability reading ability working memory naming speed findings support hypothesis phonological awareness strongly related beginning word reading skill alphabetic orthography results longitudinal analyses also suggest orthographic depth influences phonological factors related reading