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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) -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: The case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
Blom, Elma; Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Attar, Zahraa; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Paradis, Johanne (Cambridge University Press, 2021)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism: The differential effect of input factors, AOA, and cognitive skills on HL Arabic and L2 English syntax
Soto-Corominas, Adriana; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Paradis, Johanne; Winters-Difani, Magdalena; Al Janaideh, Redab (Cambridge University Press, 2022)Despite growing research on individual differences in child bilinguals, few studies have focused on the development of syntax, included both languages, and studied newly arrived school-age migrant children. Accordingly, ...