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Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English- Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees
Gottardo, Alexandra; Al Janaideh, Redab; Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Amin, Norah (MDPI, 2023)Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition. The present study provided a unique look ... -
How language environment, age and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (2020) -
The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic
Daskalaki, Evangelia; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Barisé, Aisha; Paradis, Johanne; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (Cambridge University Press, 2023)Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by morphological cues. Given that in heritage ... -
Morphology and Reading Skills in Arabic-Speaking Syrian Refugee Children
Al Janaideh, Redab; Tibi, Sana; Gottardo, Alexandra; Paradis, Johanne; Chen, Becky Xi (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)Limited research has been conducted on the literacy skills of Arabic-speaking refugee children. This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal role(s) of morphological awareness in Arabic word reading and reading ... -
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic—English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra (MDPI, 2021)This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6–13) within their first three years in Canada. ... -
The role of socioemotional wellbeing difficulties and adversity in the L2 acquisition of first-generation refugee children
Paradis, Johanne; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Vitoroulis, Irene; Al Janaideh, Redab; Chen, Xi; Gottardo, Alexandra; Jenkins, Jennifer; Georgiades, Katholiki (Cambridge University Press, 2022-05-16)First-generation refugee children often experience pre- and post-migration adversity and display high levels of mental health/wellbeing difficulties, but to date, research has not examined the impact of such factors on ... -
The role of word reading and oral language skills in reading comprehension in Syrian refugee children (Postprint)
Al Janaideh, Redab; Gottardo, Alexandra; Tibi, Sana; Paradis, Johanne; Chen, Xi (Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-24)Canada has resettled more than 57,000 Syrian refugees since 2015 (Government of Canada, 2017). However, little is known about refugee children’s language and literacy development. The present study evaluated Syrian refugee ... -
Word reading in English and Arabic in children who are Syrian refugees
Gottardo, Alexandra; Amin, Norah; Amin, Asma; Al-Janaideh, Redab; Chen, Xi; Paradis, Johanne (2020)