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The intensity of the language contact belongs to numerous sociodemographic variables that influence the language competence of preschool children. This study aimed to examine associations between 16 variables related to the language contact and German language competence of multilingual children. Four-year-old kindergarten children (N = 824) were examined with the language test "Kindersprachscreening" (KiSS.2; Holler-Zittlau/Euler/Neumann 2011). Correlations between children's and their parents' age of contact to German and children's language competence were weak to moderate. The same is valid for the use of German at home. Weak German language skills of children speaking Turkish and Arabic were associated with their limited contact to German both in the family and beyond. Their German language competence depended predominantly on how often German was used at home. All other children acquired German predominantly in day care facilities. Therefore, their German language skills did not depend much on the language input in the family. To sum up, intensive language contact was, at best, moderately associated with age-appropriate German language skills. Significant differences in the command of the German language among largest ethnic or linguistic subgroups could be traced back to sociodemographic differences in the children's and their families' characteristics. Active use of German at home was more important for those immigrant subgroups that do not attend any day care facilities before kindergarten age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Tomasik, Lindner, Weiland, Schmidt, Moser & Kieslich (2020) präsentieren eine Neuvalidierung und -normierung des Kindersprachscreenings KiSS. Dies ist begrüßenswert, allerdings sind einige Aspekte kritisch zu sehen: u. a. ein nicht optimaler Referenzstandard, teils veraltete Daten, die Nicht-Berücksichtigung der Vorgehensweise bisheriger Validierungen und Normierungen von KiSS, eine problematische Vernachlässigung relevanter Unterschiede zwischen Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund sowie Konsequenzen für die praktische Anwendung. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Logos 6 Cold Edition (German) is the first German edition of the Logos Bible Software, which is organised in modules. The basic Gold package represents an immensely powerful and much expandable digital library with about 600 books, mainly in German, and a graphic user interface in German. The software surpasses other Bible programmes through its innovative search and research options. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, some extralinguistic factors were examined which might influence the language acquisition process in Italian and other immigrant preschool children acquiring German as their second or third language. The following methods of the language assessment were utilized: (a) a modified, validated version of language test Marburger Sprachscreening and (b) a classification of children as needing or not needing additional educational support in learning German. Italians scored significantly higher on vocabulary and grammar than other immigrant children. This can be attributed to the fact that Italians attended German nursery schools and played with German children after the daycare center time significantly more often than other immigrants. Immigrant groups with the most advanced German skills were English speaking children and Greeks. Linguistically weakest groups were Turks and Arabs. For these groups, dependence of the language acquisition process on extralinguistic factors was also shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An article is presented on a study conducted on language acquisition exhibited by children of Turkish and Russian immigrants to Germany. The author compares patterns of generalization between children with Russian and Turkish native languages as well as those of native German speakers and children of immigrants of other countries, and describes the methodology used by the German board of child language assessment to determine the linguistic abilities of their sample set of schoolchildren between the ages of three and five years.

Kilchör reviews the thesis that in diachronic respect, the Torah of Moses (the Deuteronomic Code in Deuteronomy 12-26) precedes the Torah of Yahweh (Exodus - Numbers). Nowadays, this assumption dominates Old Testament scholarship. Through a detailed exegetical analysis Kilchör corroborates that an arrangement in which the Deuteronomic Code chronologically follows Exodus to Numbers, corresponding to the canonical sequence of the books, is more plausible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]