HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2025

FIHELaD · Factors In Home and Environment Language Development

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-06-01 → 2025-07-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 153 487 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Factors In Home and Environment Language Development

FIHELaD introduced a novel interdisciplinary approach to the study of factors affecting the development of home and environment languages in Greek-German heritage language children attending mainstream schools in the EU. The project combined psycholinguistic methods with classroom-based research to bridge the gap between experimental and educational perspectives. Heritage language children, a subset of bilingual children, acquire their minority language at home and their majority language through schooling and community interaction. FIHELaD focused on two groups: Greek-German bilingual children of Greek descent in Germany, who acquire Greek as their home (minority) language and German as their environment (majority) language. German-Greek bilingual children of German descent in Greece, who acquire Greek as their majority language and German as their minority language. Most existing studies investigate the influence of linguistic and extra-linguistic person-level factors on acquisition outcomes in either the home or the environment language independently. By contrast, FIHELaD examined the developmental trajectory of these factors in both languages simultaneously, addressing their interaction and mutual influence. The project’s central aim was to determine to what extent linguistic and extra-linguistic person-level factors predict convergence or divergence in sentence processing when Greek functions as a minority versus a majority language, as well as the direction and magnitude of these effects. To achieve this, FIHELaD developed a comprehensive experimental battery that fills a key methodological gap in bilingualism research. It integrates: Offline measures (comprehension tasks, questionnaires), real-time measures (visual-world eye-tracking), cognitive and didactic assessments, advanced statistical modelling. This combination allows the project to reveal how bilingual children parse complex syntactic structures and to link behavioural outcomes with underlying processing mechanisms. Given the diverse linguistic backgrounds represented in EU classrooms, understanding these factors is crucial for supporting the academic success of heritage language speakers and informing evidence-based educational practices.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Intra-European migration has populated the school classrooms of mainstream education in Europe’s countries with multilingual students. In European primary schools, typical classrooms include bilingual children of Greek descent who speak Greek as their home language in Germany and bilingual children of German descent who speak Greek as their environment language in Greece. For these pupils being competent in both the home and environment language is pivotal for school achievement. Notwithstanding the large number of studies on the interplay of language systems in the human mind, the fundamental question of language development in multilingualism has yet to be addressed sufficiently: How do linguistic and extra-linguistic person-level factors predict the acquisitional outcome of both the home and the environment language in multilingual classroom populations? The proposed Factors In Home and Environment Language Development (FIHELaD) project addresses this question from an interdisciplinary approach bringing together multilingualism and developmental psycholinguistics along with didactics and data science. This project makes incremental progress towards the goal of advancing the scientific understanding regarding language acquisition and processing and feeding back into society those answers that inform citizens of the beneficial state-of-affairs of multilingualism. FIHELaD is a comprehensive project examining how linguistic and extra-linguistic factors shape the parsing routines of grammatical phenomena with complex syntactic structure, specifically focus sentences, in the home and environment language of 150-200 Greek-German bilingual children. To predict future language development trajectories via statistical modelling, FIHELaD triangulates a unique experimental methodology by combining gaze and pupillometry eye tracking data with classroom-based and baseline experimental observations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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