United States: Influence Of Second Language Cherokee Immersion On Children's Development Of ...

United States: Influence Of Second Language Cherokee Immersion On Children's Development Of Past Tense In Their First Language, English Tracy Hirata-Edds, 2011   Metalinguistic skills may develop differently in multilingual and monolingual children. This study investigated effects of immersion in Cherokee as a second language on young children's (4;5–6;1) skills of noticing morphological forms/patterns in English, their first language, by comparing English past tense skills on two nonword...

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