Kathleen Jubenville|Monique Sénéchal|Melissa Malette
The moderating effect of orthographic consistency on oral vocabulary learning in monolingual and bilingual children
Carleton University|Carleton University|Carleton University
two studies conducted assess whether incidental presence print facilitates acquisition oral vocabulary b facilitative effect print moderated phonemetographeme consistency c findings obtained monolingual children generalize bilingual children total 71 monolingual frenchspeaking children age 9 years 2 months study 1 64 bilingual children age 9 years 3 months study 2 participated one three conditions consistent print inconsistent print print children learn novel labels unfamiliar objects pairedassociate paradigm studies print facilitated acquisition recall expressive vocabulary effect print consistency however varied across studies expected monolingual children exposed consistent print learned novel labels children exposed inconsistent print contrast bilingual children exposed inconsistent print learned recalled labels children exposed consistent print intriguing findings might due differences attention allocation training