The specificity principle in young dual language learners' English development

• Main Authors: Sun, He, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Individual Differences; Specificity Principle; Usage-based Theory; Threshold Effects Hypothesis; External-internal Factors Hypothesis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147929
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study employs the Specificity Principle to examine the relative impacts of external (input quantity at home and at school, number of books and reading frequency at home, teachers' degree and experience, language usage, socioeconomic status) and internal factors (children's working mem...