Research on the impact of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition
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The gap
There is a lack of research on the impact of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition. Prior studies have focused on school-aged children, with limited attention to younger children. The study aims to address this gap by examining the effects of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1985 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 24 times in total.
Research trend
Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps
- Pandemic-related disruptions to childcare and English-Spanish bilingual language acquisition (2026) · Frontiers in Education · doi
There is a lack of research on the impact of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition. Prior studies have focused on school-aged children, with limited attention to younger children. The study aims to address this gap by examining the effects of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: there lack research impact pandemic bilingual children language - Dual lexical assessment of Basque-Spanish bilinguals using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (2026) · Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja · doi
Future research should examine the relationship between language exposure and language development in other bilingual populations. Future research should investigate the role of other factors, such as socioeconomic status and parental education, in shaping language development. Future research should develop and test interventions aimed at promoting bilingual language development.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: future research examine relationship between language exposure development - Preschoolers’ Early Sentence Comprehension: Comparing Bilingual and Monolingual Children and the Role of Executive Function and Vocabulary Development (2026) · Developmental Science · doi
There is a lack of research on bilingual children's comprehension of sentence structures. Previous studies have focused on monolingual children, leaving a gap in our understanding of bilingual children's language development. This study aims to fill this gap by comparing the sentence comprehension of bilingual and monolingual children.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: there lack research bilingual children comprehension sentence structures - Pandemic-related disruptions to childcare and English-Spanish bilingual language acquisition (2026) · Frontiers in Education · doi
Future studies should examine the long-term effects of the pandemic on bilingual children's language acquisition. Research should investigate the impact of targeted support on bilingual children's language development. Studies should explore the effects of the pandemic on language acquisition in other bilingual populations.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5Keywords: future studies examine long-term effects pandemic bilingual children - Language switching during bilingual reading (1985) · British Journal of Psychology · cited 24× · doi
Future studies should investigate language switching in other language tasks, such as speaking or writing. Future studies should examine the effects of language switching on language processing in bilingual individuals. Future studies should develop new techniques for examining language switching, such as using eye-tracking or neuroimaging methods.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5Keywords: future studies investigate language switching other tasks speaking
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