Dobrova Galina R.
Professor at the Department of Children’s Language and Literary Education, the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
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Comparison of Russian, English and Ger- man versions of the Macarthur-bates communicative development inventories: the language picture of the world and language reflection in bilingual childrenMoscow University Translation Studies Bulletin. 2020. 1. p.104-120read more1018
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The article presents a comparative analysis of the lexical content of the Russian, English and German versions of the MacArthur questionnaire, one of the diagnostic tools of speech development of younger children. Bilingual children’s language picture of the world, as well as language reflection in such children, is researched based on a comparison of various questionnaires. As a result, it is concluded that the language picture of the world of bilingual children is formed on the basis of a “stronger” language at a given point in time, expanding due to the second language, and language reflection in bilingual children often occurs earlier than in monolingual children, first in their “stronger” language.
Keywords: language picture of the world, bilingualism, simultaneous bilingualism, diagnostics of speech development of younger children, MacArthur questionnaire, the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, ontolinguistics, sociocultural realities, the ontogenesis of speech development, language reflection, metalinguistic awareness
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