‘5 things to know about life with many languages’: Evidence base for the poster information

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 The benefits of bilingualism

• Bialystok, Ellen. “The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.” Psychological bulletin 143.3 (2017): 233. Read the paper on the researcher’s website: https://lcad.lab.yorku.ca/
• Visit a learning module by researcher Patricia Kuhl’s lab: https://modules.ilabs.uw.edu/module/bilingual-language-development/
• Watch a TED talk by researcher Patricia Kuhl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ymanHajN8

Measuring the vocabulary of bilingual children

• Core, C., Hoff, E., Rumiche, R., & Señor, M. (2013). Total and conceptual vocabulary in Spanish–English bilinguals from 22 to 30 months: Implications for assessment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56(5), 1637–1649. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2013/11-0044)

Aboriginal languages, diversity and identity

• The National Indigenous Languages Report 2020: https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/indigenous-arts-and-languages/indigenous-languages-and-arts-program/national-indigenous-languages-report

The Aboriginal languages situation in Mparntwe/Alice Springs

• O’Shannessy, Carmel, Vanessa Davis, Jessie Bartlett, Alice Nelson, Denise Foster. “Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia.” Studies in Language Assessment  12, no. 2 (2023): 286.

• Read the paper on the project website: https://little-kids-learning-languages.net/

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