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- The study focused on the relationship between sociolinguistic awareness and false belief in 3- and 4-year-old Cantonese-speaking children learning English as a second language.
- Results showed that sociolinguistic awareness was a unique predictor of false belief, even after considering factors like age and family income.
- The findings suggest that understanding false beliefs is closely tied to sociolinguistic awareness, which is affected by the way the children learn their second language.
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In this study, we examined whether sociolinguistic awareness and false belief were uniquely related in 3- and 4-year-old Cantonese-speaking children learning English as a second language. The English-use background of these children varied so that they possessed sociolinguistic awareness to different degrees. Results indicated that sociolinguistic awareness predicted false belief uniquely after controlling for age, nonverbal intelligence, English vocabulary, and family income for both the second language learners and the more balanced bilinguals. The group difference in false belief was adequately explained by the corresponding difference in sociolinguistic awareness over and above the other variables. Such findings provide evidence for the claim that false belief understanding is critically related to sociolinguistic awareness, which in turn is influenced by how a second language is learned.
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