Sentences with phrase «one's monolingual peers»

The authors compared children speaking English as a second language with monolingual peers with comparable English language proficiency.

When new words were introduced to their vocabularies, the English - Mandarin bilingual children surpassed their Mandarin monolingual peers as they could learn words in each language more effectively.

The authors compared children speaking English as an additional language with monolingual peers with comparable English language proficiency.

Poulin - Dubois and Cristina Crivello, a graduate student with Concordia's Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH), led a group of researchers * in a longitudinal investigation, which compared bilingual toddlers to their monolingual peers, tracking the tots as they gained greater vocabularies in each of their two languages.

There is no question that Spanish - speaking Hispanic students» language - learning needs are somewhat different than their monolingual peers, particularly in the early years.

Despite the controversy of using monolingual norms to interpret bilingual children's vocabulary development, these assessments can be used to offer an estimate of the distance between these children and their monolingual peers.

This highly successful program is modeled on the French immersion schools of Canada, which have a long - proven record of success in supporting students to become bilingual, interculturally aware, and cognitively more advanced than their monolingual peers.

Typically, they also tend to have greater self confidence than their monolingual peers.

It repeats a familiar narrative about EAL learners outperforming their monolingual peers.

By fifth grade, these students were reading as well as their monolingual peers in the grade above them, according to the study conducted by George Mason University researchers.

«Research shows that younger children have a superior ability to learn a second language and that bilingual students tend to outperform their monolingual peers.»

They have better focus, memory, and problem - solving skills; a better sense of self; better relationships with their parents; and are more likely to graduate high school and go to college than their monolingual peers.