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Title: The Effects of Early Biliteracy on Thought Organisation and Syntactic Complexity in Written Production by 11-Year-Old Children
Language: English
Authors: Lemke, Cristiane Ely, Weissheimer, Janaína, Mota, Natália Bezerra, de Souza Brentano, Luciana, Finger, Ingrid
Source: Language Teaching Research Quarterly. 2021 26:1-17.
Availability: European Knowledge Development (EUROKD). e-mail: editorial@eurokd.com; Web site: https://www.eurokd.com/journal/jd/1
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
Grade 5
Intermediate Grades
Middle Schools
Grade 6
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 5, Grade 6, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Portuguese, Foreign Countries, Syntax, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Language Proficiency, Graphs, Writing Processes, Organization, Native Language, Language Usage
Geographic Terms: Brazil
ISSN: 2667-6753
Abstract: The study investigates the effects of bilingualism and biliteracy on thought organisation, and syntactic complexity in the written production in a group of fifty 11-year-old children (M = 10.7) enrolled in 5th and 6th grades in a bilingual school in the south of Brazil. The children's home and community language is Portuguese, and they have been exposed to English at school for 10 hours a week for at least five years. Participants were asked to create a narrative based on a sequence of five images (Cambridge Assessment, 2018), being one in English and one in Portuguese, in a counterbalanced order. Thought organisation (connectivity) was measured through the analysis of graph trajectories performed with the computational tool Speech Graphs (Mota et al., 2014, 2016, 2019) and the analysis of syntactic complexity involved the assessment of T-Units (Hunt, 1965). Results indicated a moderate positive correlation in the attributes of thought connectivity and the levels of syntactic complexity in both languages, demonstrating that, as children advance in the development of more complex writing strategies in Portuguese, they progress in their written production in English to the same extent.
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