dc.contributor.author | Paradis, Johanne | |
dc.contributor.author | Soto-Corominas, Adriana | |
dc.contributor.author | Vitoroulis, Irene | |
dc.contributor.author | Al Janaideh, Redab | |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Xi | |
dc.contributor.author | Gottardo, Alexandra | |
dc.contributor.author | Jenkins, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | Georgiades, Katholiki | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-26T17:40:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-26T17:40:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05-16 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Paradis, J., Soto-Corominas, A., Vitoroulis, I., Al Janaideh, R., Chen, X., Gottardo, A., . . . Georgiades, K. (2022). The role of socioemotional wellbeing difficulties and adversity in the L2 acquisition of first-generation refugee children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S136672892200030X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/81677 | |
dc.description | This article comes from a CYRRC-funded longitudinal study, with study sites in Edmonton, Waterloo, and Toronto, that explores the relationship between language and wellbeing in Syrian children with refugee experience. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | 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 refugee children’s L2 acquisition. Accordingly, this study examined
the influence of externalizing and internalizing problem behaviours (wellbeing), time in refugee
camps and low socioeconomic status (SES) (adversity) on the English-L2 abilities of 117 Syrian
refugee children (7-14 years) in their third year of residency in Canada. Wellbeing difficulties
and adversity factors accounted for variance on L2 vocabulary, morphosyntax, listening
comprehension and narrative production tasks, beyond the variance accounted for by age of L2
acquisition and length of L2 exposure. Specifically, externalizing problem behaviours, time in
refugee camp, maternal education and maternal employment predicted variance in L2 abilities. It
is concluded that refugee children could have influences on their L2 acquisition that are different
from those of bilinguals with other backgrounds. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | en_US |
dc.title | The role of socioemotional wellbeing difficulties and adversity in the L2 acquisition of first-generation refugee children | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |