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The role of word reading and oral language skills in reading comprehension in Syrian refugee children (Postprint)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-24)
Canada has resettled more than 57,000 Syrian refugees since 2015 (Government of Canada, 2017). However, little is known about refugee children’s language and literacy development. The present study evaluated Syrian refugee ...
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic—English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages
(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. ...
Interdependence between L1 and L2: The case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(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 ...