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Rankin, Peter Sheldon; Staton, Sally; Potia, Azhar Hussain; Houen, Sandy; Thorpe, Karen – Child Development, 2022
Observational studies comparing child outcomes in early care and education classrooms of differing quality are often confounded by between-child differences. A within-child design, tracking children across contexts, can identify the effects of quality with less confounding. An analysis of Australian children (N = 1128, mean age 5 years, 48%…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries
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Penny Levickis; Dan Cloney; Maude Roy-Vallières; Patricia Eadie – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study aims to extend our knowledge regarding contributions of educator--child interactions to child language outcomes by examining the extent to which specific dimensions of the CLASS observational tool of educator-child interactions are associated with child language abilities, utilizing data from an Australian…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Verbal Ability, Foreign Countries
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Vlach, Haley A.; DeBrock, Catherine A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Children are able to resolve the referential ambiguity of learning new words by tracking co-occurrence probabilities across moments in time, a behavior termed cross-situational word learning (CSWL). Although we know that children can use co-occurrence data to map words to objects, the literature has a striking limitation: research has focused on…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing