Supporting bilingualism in vulnerable populations

M Vender, M Vernice, A Sorace - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although bilingualism is generally appraised and supported by society, many more doubts
arise when it comes to children suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders. The concern …

Phonological awareness across child populations: How bilingualism and dyslexia interact

M Vender, C Melloni - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
Phonological awareness is a complex and multifaceted skill which plays an essential role in
the development of an individual's language and literacy abilities. Phonological skills are …

Morphological awareness in developmental dyslexia: Playing with nonwords in a morphologically rich language

C Melloni, M Vender - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Although phonological deficits are unanimously recognized as one of the key manifestations
of developmental dyslexia, a growing body of research has reported impairments in …

Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals

KM McCarthy, K Skoruppa - Child Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) phonology on second language
(L2) early reading skills in Sylheti‐English bilinguals (N= 58; 48% girls; British Bangladeshi) …

Intervención en el control inhibitorio en niños con y sin trastorno de lenguaje dentro del aula

EMA Mediavilla, JLG Moreno… - … de investigación en …, 2021 - dialnet.unirioja.es
El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el impacto de una intervención escolar en control
inhibitorio llevada a cabo dentro de diversas aulas de segundo ciclo de primaria (9-11 …

[图书][B] Bilingualism matters: language learning across the lifespan

M Garraffa, A Sorace, M Vender - 2023 - books.google.com
What happens in the brain when learning a second language? Can speaking more than one
language provide cognitive benefits over a lifetime? What implications does an increase in …

Bridging the Gap in Adult Dyslexia Research: Assessing the Efficacy of a Linguistic Intervention on Literacy Skills

M Vender, D Delfitto - Annals of Dyslexia, 2024 - Springer
While developmental dyslexia has been extensively studied in children, research on adults
is still rather limited. This paper aims to bridge the gap in existing research by presenting the …

Phonological processing and nonword repetition: a critical tool for the identification of dyslexia in bilingualism

C Melloni, M Vender, E Babatsouli… - An Anthology of Bilingual …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Over the last 50 years, an extensive body of research has shown that phonological
processing skills correlate with reading achievements in alphabetic orthographies …

Identifying the risk of dyslexia in bilingual children: The potential of language-dependent and language-independent tasks

J Taha, D Carioti, N Stucchi, M Chailleux… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study investigates the linguistic processing and non-linguistic cognitive abilities of
monolingual and bilingual children with and without reading difficulties and examines the …

Literacy skills in Italian L2 children with a migrant background: a qualitative analysis of spelling errors

C Melloni, M Redolfi, M Vender - Lingue e linguaggio, 2022 - rivisteweb.it
L2 children experience more difficulties in literacy acquisition than their monolingual peers,
and their fragilities could be misdiagnosed as learning disabilities. In this light, an accurate …