Shining a light on cultural neuroscience: Recommendations on the use of fNIRS to study how sociocultural contexts shape the brain.

MM Arredondo - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable neuroimaging technique that
may serve as a methodological tool for studying how sociocultural contexts can shape the …

What's in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children's word reading development

X Sun, K Zhang, RA Marks, N Nickerson… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the cross‐linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish–English,
Chinese–English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N= 283, 5–10 years) …

Early Precursors of Reading Development in Simultaneous Bilinguals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

I Bhalloo, M Molnar - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Literacy precursors are cognitive, linguistic, and oral-language skills that predict
future reading skills in children as young as 4 years. Speech-language pathologists and …

The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spanish–English bilingual children in the US

LV Kremin, MM Arredondo, LSJ Hsu… - … journal of bilingual …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Models of monolingual literacy propose that reading acquisition builds upon children's
semantic, phonological, and orthographic knowledge. The relationships between these …

[HTML][HTML] Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere's circuitry for learning to read in young children

KK Jasińska, MS Berens, I Kovelman, LA Petitto - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
How does bilingual exposure impact children's neural circuitry for learning to read? Theories
of bilingualism suggests that exposure to two languages may yield a functional and …

Differential effects of metalinguistic awareness components in early foreign language acquisition of English vocabulary and grammar

T Kieseier, D Thoma, M Vogelbacher… - Language …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Metalinguistic awareness (MLA) is a predictor of adult foreign language (FL) learning in
instructed settings. Following Bialystok and Ryan two-component model of MLA, we …

Towards development of guidelines for virtual administration of paediatric standardized language and literacy assessments: Considerations for clinicians and …

E Wood, I Bhalloo, B McCaig, C Feraru… - SAGE Open …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: Previous virtual care literature within the field of speech-language pathology has
primarily focused on validating the virtual use of intervention programmes. There are fewer …

Integrated multilingualism and bilingual reading development

RA Marks, T Satterfield, I Kovelman - Multilingual perspectives on …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In this chapter, we harness brain development for bilingual reading to understand the impact
of bilingualism on neural representations of language. The Integrated Multilingual Model …

Morphological awareness and its role in early word reading in English monolinguals, Spanish–English, and Chinese–English simultaneous bilinguals

RA Marks, D Labotka, X Sun, N Nickerson… - Bilingualism …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Words' morphemic structure and their orthographic representations vary across languages.
How do bilingual experiences with structurally distinct languages influence children's …

Early Chinese heritage language learning in Canada: A study of Mandarin-and Cantonese-speaking children's receptive vocabulary attainment

G Li, L Gunderson, Z Sun, Z Lin - System, 2021 - Elsevier
Chinese immigrant children in North America often experience rapid growth in their English
lexicon, while their heritage language (HL) vocabulary development is characterized by …