The oral language assessment of bilingual children is challenging. The assessment
practices and challenges faced by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in countries where …

Recent studies demonstrate that emerging literacy depends on earlier language
achievement. Importantly, most extant work focuses on parent-reported production prior to …

Purpose The utility of parent and teacher reports for screening 3 types of bilingual
preschoolers (English–first language [L1]/Mandarin–second language [L2], Mandarin …

Acquisition of oral English verb morphology presents difficulties for bilinguals, learners of
EFL and English-speaking monolingual children with specific language impairment. This …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve standardized language assessments
among bilingual toddlers by investigating and removing the effects of bias due to …

Learning to mark for tense in a second language is notoriously difficult for speakers of a
tenseless language like Chinese. In this study we test two reasons for these difficulties in …

Western Austronesian languages, like Tagalog, have unique, complex voice systems that
require the correct combinations of verbal and nominal markers, raising many questions …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is under-identified in US bilingual children who
speak Asian languages. To achieve a better understanding of the manifestations of DLD in …

Abstract Distinct from English, Mandarin verbs are not inflected to encode Past Tense, but
perfective aspect is typically marked by aspectual markers-le and-guo. Moreover, resultative …

Asia is a 'homeland'for bilingualism research in regards to its diversity. It is considered as a
vivid research site where there is significant growth of academic areas of exploration. Yet …