The Uptowner in NYC runs a rather deficit-oriented, but interesting piece on bilingualism and speech delays. This lacks a bit of nuance, as with the following passage: “'Research shows that bilingual kids have smaller vocabularies; kids from poor backgrounds are shown to have a smaller vocabulary. So they will score lower on tests,' says Crowley" who is one of the main sources of information for the piece. Of course she fails to mention that aggregating the vocabularies across the languages of bilingual kids often reduces the vocabulary discrepancies she mentions.
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I am a professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, and director of the Curriculum & Instruction doctoral program. I have served as an associate editor at Child Development, Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editor at Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. I was a bilingual teacher in Detroit, MI and have worked in district, state, and nonprofit settings. I work with bilingual learners from multilingual homes in K-8 settings, thinking about language use and development, cross-linguistic relations, instructional interventions, and teacher practice. I've published a bunch of articles and book chapters, and have developed language and reading curricula. I always work in close collaboration with teachers to facilitate the translation of research to practice.
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