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Direct linkHaft, Stephanie L.; Gys, Christopher L.; Bunge, Silvia; Uchikoshi, Yuuko; Zhou, Qing – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Using two groups of dual language learners (DLLs), the current study examined links between two developmental constructs closely linked to school readiness: the home language environment (HLE) and executive function (EF). In a sample of 90 children (age range = 38-70 months, 59% girls) from either Mexican American (MA, N = 46)…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Sims, Jacqueline; Coley, Rebekah Levine – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Home language and literacy inputs have been consistently linked with enhanced language and literacy skills among children. Most studies have focused on maternal inputs among monolingual populations. Though the proportion of American children growing up in primarily non-English-speaking homes is growing and the role of fathers in…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Mothers, Fathers
Peer reviewedDiaz, Rafael M.; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Spanish-speaking preschoolers learning English in a bilingual preschool program were videotaped while working independently on tasks to examine their spontaneous private speech. Results show that the private speech of bilingual preschoolers appears to develop normally. Positive effects of second-language learning in a bilingual program on the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, English (Second Language)
Download full textBarclay, Lisa Frances Kurcz – 1969
Sixty-seven Mexican-American children were administered a special 7-week Head Start language training program during the summer of 1967. Three basic treatments were used, and there was a control group. Two teachers were used, thus raising the number of groups to eight. The three basic treatments involved a structured English language training…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Experimental Programs, Instructional Programs
Riley, John E. – 1968
One hundred twenty first-grade Mexican-American students (60 from each Fort Worth and Laredo, Texas) were subjects of an experiment which attempted to determine whether bilingualism inhibits verbal ability in one or both of the children's languages. The PPVT-A (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Form A) was used to test verbal ability and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Community Influence, Elementary School Students
Dunn, Lloyd M. – 1988
A review of research on the cognitive, linguistic, and scholastic development of mainland Hispanic-American children paints a dismal overall picture. Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, 11% of the population in 1986; about 75% have Mexican ancestry. Less than half of Latin adults speak English well enough for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism
