Measuring Bilingual Children's Receptive Vocabularies

摘要: Receptive vocabulary of Hispanic children in Miami was tested both English and Spanish with complementary standardized tests, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R) de Vocabulario en Imagenes (TVIP-H). 105 bilingual first graders, middle to high socioeconomic status relative national norms, were divided according language(s) spoken their homes. Both groups, whether they spoke only home (OSH) or (ESH), performed near mean 100 receptive (TVIP-H means 97.0 96.5); contrast, ESH group scored more than 1 SD higher OSH (PPVT-R 88.0 69.7, respectively). It appears, therefore, that learning 2 languages at once does not harm language development origin, while it lay groundwork for superior performance majority language. Furthermore, an analysis translation equivalents, items shared by shows a statistically significant portion children's lexical knowledge overlap is therefore reflected single-language scores.