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Bilingualism in the United States: Exploring Linguistic and Social Ecologies Across Home, School, and Out-of-School Contexts

Mon, April 16, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Seventh Floor, Room 7.02-7.03

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The five papers in this session, anchored around children who grow up with two languages (from hereon referred to as bilinguals), cover a spectrum of developmental stages—from toddlerhood to adolescence—and all acknowledge the important role that language skills and associated social ecologies play in academic outcomes, particularly in reading. The papers contribute a spectrum of scholarly understandings, including parental beliefs about bilingualism and their relationship to language practices, predictors of bilingual children’s language outcomes, and developing measures that examine the quality of academic language in less-commonly studied out-of-school settings. Our discussant will synthesize the papers to understand the social and developmental factors influencing language and reading acquisition.

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