How migrants' transcultural perceptions shape their children's bilingual language development: Insights from a cross-sectional multicultural study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the factors affecting children's language acquisition in transcultural situations and how clinicians can take these children's specific needs into account.

Objectives

To better understand the acquisition of bilingualism by migrant parents' children, our aim was to study the relations between parental transcultural perceptions and their children's language skills in both the heritage language and the host country's majority language.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 114 kindergarten children, born in France to migrant parents speaking Arabic, Tamil, or Soninke. Children's expressive language and comprehension skills were assessed with the ELAL and the N-EEL scales. In semistructured interviews, parents answered questions abou

SUBMITTER: Barry C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12533872 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature