Nathalie Topaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathalie Topaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Topaj |
| SIGNATURE | TOPAJ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6303-3051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From stories to literacy
Narratives have been an important tool in assessing children’s language skills. However, research on the contributions of narratives to literacy has been limited in bilinguals, especially in non-English language contexts. This longitudinal study investigated whether oral narrative macrostructure in kindergarten, assessed in both the first language (L1) and the second language (L2), uniquely predicts reading comprehension three years later. Partic…
Literacy instruction and lexicon size determine bilingual reading development of Russian-German children
Research question: How does Russian and German reading comprehension develop during the first 3 years of primary school in Russian heritage speakers and which factors predict performance in each language? Methodology: 40 Russian-German children were tested annually from first to third grade (age in grade 1 M = 7; 1 years). Reading was assessed with comparable Russian and German word and sentence reading comprehension tests. The Russian test was a…
A Four-Year Longitudinal Comparative Study on the Lexicon Development of Russian and Turkish Heritage Speakers in Germany
Russian and Turkish are the most frequently spoken and intensively investigated heritage languages in Germany, but contrastive research on their development in early childhood is still missing. This longitudinal study compares the trajectories of expressive lexicon development in Russian (n = 70) and Turkish (n = 79) heritage speakers and identifies predictors for their lexicon size at preschool age. Heritage lexicon size was tested with two comp…
Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder = Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children
'Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder' ist ein linguistisch und psycholinguistisch fundiertes Sprachstandsscreening für bilingual russisch-deutsche Kinder im Vorschul- und Frühschulalter. Es ermöglicht die Einschätzung des Sprachstands im Russischen, auf der Basis vorläufiger Normen, zu wissenschaftlichen, therapeutischen und pädagogischen Zwecken. Der Test sollte von kompetenten, im Idealfall muttersprachlichen Sprechern des Russis…
Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children = Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder
The 'Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children' is a linguistically and psycholinguistically-grounded test for L1-Russian bilingual children of pre-school and elementary school age. It allows the evaluation of language proficiency in Russian for scientific, therapeutic, and pedagogical purposes. The test is based on preliminary norms: data of 167 German-Russian bilingual children between the ages of 3 years and 6 years 11 months…
A Four-Year Longitudinal Comparative Study on the Lexicon Development of Russian and Turkish Heritage Speakers in Germany
Russian and Turkish are the most frequently spoken and intensively investigated heritage languages in Germany, but contrastive research on their development in early childhood is still missing. This longitudinal study compares the trajectories of expressive lexicon development in Russian (n = 70) and Turkish (n = 79) heritage speakers and identifies predictors for their lexicon size at preschool age. Heritage lexicon size was tested with two comp…
Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder = Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children
'Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder' ist ein linguistisch und psycholinguistisch fundiertes Sprachstandsscreening für bilingual russisch-deutsche Kinder im Vorschul- und Frühschulalter. Es ermöglicht die Einschätzung des Sprachstands im Russischen, auf der Basis vorläufiger Normen, zu wissenschaftlichen, therapeutischen und pädagogischen Zwecken. Der Test sollte von kompetenten, im Idealfall muttersprachlichen Sprechern des Russis…
Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children = Sprachstandstest Russisch für mehrsprachige Kinder
The 'Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children' is a linguistically and psycholinguistically-grounded test for L1-Russian bilingual children of pre-school and elementary school age. It allows the evaluation of language proficiency in Russian for scientific, therapeutic, and pedagogical purposes. The test is based on preliminary norms: data of 167 German-Russian bilingual children between the ages of 3 years and 6 years 11 months…
A Four-Year Longitudinal Comparative Study on the Lexicon Development of Russian and Turkish Heritage Speakers in Germany
Russian and Turkish are the most frequently spoken and intensively investigated heritage languages in Germany, but contrastive research on their development in early childhood is still missing. This longitudinal study compares the trajectories of expressive lexicon development in Russian (n = 70) and Turkish (n = 79) heritage speakers and identifies predictors for their lexicon size at preschool age. Heritage lexicon size was tested with two comp…
Literacy instruction and lexicon size determine bilingual reading development of Russian-German children
Research question: How does Russian and German reading comprehension develop during the first 3 years of primary school in Russian heritage speakers and which factors predict performance in each language? Methodology: 40 Russian-German children were tested annually from first to third grade (age in grade 1 M = 7; 1 years). Reading was assessed with comparable Russian and German word and sentence reading comprehension tests. The Russian test was a…
From stories to literacy
Narratives have been an important tool in assessing children’s language skills. However, research on the contributions of narratives to literacy has been limited in bilinguals, especially in non-English language contexts. This longitudinal study investigated whether oral narrative macrostructure in kindergarten, assessed in both the first language (L1) and the second language (L2), uniquely predicts reading comprehension three years later. Partic…
German (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Lexicon (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Foreign Language Teaching Methods (2 works) · Literacy (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychology of Development and Education (2 works)