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Complex Syntax Input: A Single Case Investigation of Increasing Preschool Teachers' Complement Clauses in Play Interactions
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Laurel Teller; C. Melanie Schuele – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
This study investigated the feasibility of a vocabulary-based teacher intervention to increase preschool teachers' production of complement clauses (e.g. "I wonder if we can put the monkey in the tree") in teacher-children play interactions. Using a multiple baseline across participants design we measured the impact of an intervention…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Education, Phrase Structure, Teacher Student Relationship
Does Enhanced Conversational Recast Promote the Learning of Grammatical Morphemes in Cantonese-Speaking Preschool Children? Answers from a Single-Case Experimental Study
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Hau, Flora F.-W.; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Ng, Megan W.-Y. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
Enhanced Conversational Recast (ECR) is an input-based grammatical intervention approach developed from research on statistical learning. Recent research reported evidence demonstrating the efficacy of ECR on the learning of grammatically obligatory morphemes in English-speaking preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Outcomes of Treatment, Morphemes
Teenage Mothers' Language Use during Shared Reading: An Examination of Quantity and Quality
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Scott, Amy; McNeill, Brigid; van Bysterveldt, Anne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
This study investigated the impact of an emergent literacy intervention on the language quality and quantity used during shared reading interactions of 14 teenage mothers (M = 19;9, SD = 1;3) and their young children (M = 2;1, SD = 0;8). Mothers participated in a seven-week emergent literacy intervention focused on a range of behaviours they could…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Parenthood, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy
Variability of Input in Preposition Learning by Preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorder and Typically-Developing Language
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Nicholas, Katrina; Alt, Mary; Hauwiller, Ella – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of variability in teaching prepositions to preschoolers with typical development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). Input variability during teaching can enhance learning, but is target dependent. We hypothesized that high variability of objects would improve preposition learning.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Using Parental Questionnaires to Investigate the Heritage Language Proficiency of Bilingual Children
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Morawska-Patera, Patrycja; Luniewska, Magdalena; Spruce, Megan; Haman, Ewa – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
We asked whether parental questionnaires on the heritage language proficiency of bilingual children might elucidate how proficient bilingual children are in their heritage language. We tested 20 UK-based Polish-English bilingual children between 4;5 and 5;9 years on Polish and English versions of the Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLTs). These…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes, Bilingualism, English