James Cummins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Cummins |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummins |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children
The central thesis of this paper is that a cognitively and academically beneficial form of bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills. Two hypotheses are formulated and combined to arrive at this position. The “developmental interdependence” hypothesis proposes that the development of competence in a second language (L2) is partially a function of the type of competence already developed in L…
Immersion programs
Bilingualism and the Development of Metalinguistic Awareness
Tasks designed to assess children's level of metalinguistic awareness and their ability to evaluate contradictory and tautological statements were administered in Ireland to grade 3 and grade 6 English-Irish bilingual children and control groups of unilingual children matched on IQ, SES, sex, and age. At both grade levels the bilingual children showed a greater awareness of certain properties of language and were better able to evaluate contradic…
Labor in the Colonial Philippines
Bilingualism and the Development of Metalinguistic Awareness
Tasks designed to assess children's level of metalinguistic awareness and their ability to evaluate contradictory and tautological statements were administered in Ireland to grade 3 and grade 6 English-Irish bilingual children and control groups of unilingual children matched on IQ, SES, sex, and age. At both grade levels the bilingual children showed a greater awareness of certain properties of language and were better able to evaluate contradic…
Immersion programs
Labor in the Colonial Philippines
Immersion programs
Bilingualism and the Development of Metalinguistic Awareness
Tasks designed to assess children's level of metalinguistic awareness and their ability to evaluate contradictory and tautological statements were administered in Ireland to grade 3 and grade 6 English-Irish bilingual children and control groups of unilingual children matched on IQ, SES, sex, and age. At both grade levels the bilingual children showed a greater awareness of certain properties of language and were better able to evaluate contradic…
Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children
The central thesis of this paper is that a cognitively and academically beneficial form of bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills. Two hypotheses are formulated and combined to arrive at this position. The “developmental interdependence” hypothesis proposes that the development of competence in a second language (L2) is partially a function of the type of competence already developed in L…
Developmental psychology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Irish (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works)