The Discourse Skills of Monolingual & Bilingual School-Aged Children

This project is being conducted in collaboration with principal investigator Dr. Patricia Cleave from Dalhousie University and focuses specifically on collecting discourse data that will help us to identify both normative and atypical trends in the development of oral discourse skills.

Differentiating between language disability and normal developmental trajectories can be difficult in bilingual children. As such, there is a need to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the development of discourse skills.

This study linguistically analysed conversational, narrative and expository discourse skills in monolingual and bilingual children in French Immersion programs, between the ages of 7-12.