Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 631-648

First language support for migrant children in kindergarten-The effects on phonological awareness, vocabulary, knowledge of the alphabet and reading in the first and second language [Erstsprachförderung bei Migrantenkindern in Kindergärten, Wirkungen auf phonologische Bewusstheit, Wortschatz sowie Buchstabenkenntnis und erstes Lesen in der Erst-und Zweitsprache] (Article)

Moser U.* , Bayer N. , Tunger V.
  • a Institut für Bildungsevaluation, Assoziiertes Institut der Universität Zürich, Wilfriedstrasse 15, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland
  • b Institut für Bildungsevaluation, Assoziiertes Institut der Universität Zürich, Wilfriedstrasse 15, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland
  • c Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern, Länggassstrasse 49, 3000 Bern, Switzerland

Abstract

This contribution reports on an investigation into the importance of supporting first language for the command of first and second language skills using a quasi-experimental longitu-dinal study of migrant children in kindergarten. For two years the development of both first and second language skills was coordinated through the treatment of the same topics and stories during lessons. Furthermore, parents were asked to read their children a story or play an audio book in the first language three times a week. This extensive intervention neither had statistically significant effects on the development of language competency in the first nor the second language, German. The transfer effects between first and second language expected by the interdependency hypothesis of Cummins were only in evidence to a very limited extent. © VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.

Author Keywords

Migrant Children Language development Interdependency hypothesis Kindergarten Longitudinal study

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79952709963&doi=10.1007%2fs11618-010-0144-5&partnerID=40&md5=bccd46213d020577336cb56ddbed954c
DOI: 10.1007/s11618-010-0144-5
ISSN: 1434663X
Cited by: 2
Original Language: German