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Same or Different: Narrative Retells in Bilingual Latino Kindergarten Children
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Méndez, Lucía I.; Perry, Jamie; Holt, Yolanda; Bian, Hui; Fafulas, Stephen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
The present study examines the association of micro- and macrostructural components in narrative retells within and across languages in Spanish-English bilingual Latino kindergarten children. Using a within-subject research design, fourteen Spanish-English speaking Latino kindergarten children were individually read a scripted picture book, after…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Connected Discourse, Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students
The Relationship between Parents' Literacy Skills and Their Preschool Children's Emergent Literacy Skills
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Taylor, Nicole A.; Greenberg, Daphne; Terry, Nicole Patton – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
The aim of the present study was to investigate the correlational and predictive relationships between parents with low literacy skills (n = 96) and their 3-5 year old children's emergent literacy skills (n = 96). In the study parents were assessed on measures of reading comprehension, decoding, fluency, oral vocabulary, and word identification,…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy, Preschool Children
Predictors of Success with Writing in the First Year of School
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Mackenzie, Noella; Hemmings, Brian – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
Language and literacy skills are instrumental to success at school and early success with writing is a key factor in literacy development. By eight years of age, children spend up to half of their school day engaged in writing tasks suggesting that those who find learning to write difficult may be disadvantaged. The ability to hear and record…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
Examining Relationships among Dialect Variation and Emergent Literacy Skills
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Terry, Nicole Patton – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
This study examined the relationship between nonmainstream American English (NMAE) dialect use and various emergent literacy skills among typically developing children in prekindergarten. Correlation and regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between children's production of NMAE forms (i.e., dialect variation [DVAR]) and their…
Descriptors: Dialects, Lunch Programs, Phonological Awareness, Predictor Variables
Spoken Language Development in Oral Preschool Children with Permanent Childhood Deafness
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Sarant, Julia Z.; Holt, Colleen M.; Dowell, Richard C.; Rickards, Field W. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2009
This article documented spoken language outcomes for preschool children with hearing loss and examined the relationships between language abilities and characteristics of children such as degree of hearing loss, cognitive abilities, age at entry to early intervention, and parent involvement in children's intervention programs. Participants were…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Deafness, Preschool Children
Phonological Awareness Development of Preschool Children with Cochlear Implants
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Ambrose, Sophie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Purpose. The primary purpose of this study was to assess whether very early access to speech sounds provided by the cochlear implant enabled children with severe to profound hearing loss to develop age-appropriate phonological awareness abilities during their preschool years. A secondary purpose of this study was to examine whether preschoolage…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonological Awareness, Assistive Technology, Oral Language