While a few children displayed above average or close to
average vocabulary skills in both languages, a majority of children performed considerably below the monolingual norms in Spanish and / or English.
Not exact matches
A University of London longitudinal study tested
vocabulary skills of the same people at ages 16 and 42 and found at the younger age the
average test score was 55 percent.
On
average, more educated and advantaged parents have children with greater
vocabulary skills and faster
vocabulary growth during early childhood than less educated and advantaged parents (Hart & Risley, 1995; Hoff, 2003).
Some students had
average word reading
skills but deficits in
vocabulary, whereas some students had low sight word efficiency but
average passage reading.