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Echoing Parental Scaffolding Style in Co-Constructed Narratives: Its Impact on Executive Function Development in Diverse Early School-Age Children
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Yan Jiang; Alison Wishard Guerra; Shana R. Cohen; Timothy T. Brown; Naomi T. Lin; Monica Molgaard; John Iversen – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Early elementary school is a crucial time for the development of executive functions, but less is known about the impact of parent-child narratives on executive function development in children of this age group. This study aims to investigate the influence of parental scaffolding styles in parent-child co-constructed narratives…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Parents as Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Latino Home Learning Opportunities, Parental Growth Mindset, and Child Academic Skills
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Diana Leyva; Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado; Christina Weiland; Anna Shapiro – Grantee Submission, 2024
Associations between home learning opportunities, parental growth mindset (the belief that intelligence is malleable), and children's academic skills have been documented primarily in European descent communities. Less is known about other communities. This study examined associations among home learning opportunities, parental mindsets, and child…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Home Study, Parent Attitudes
Latino Home Learning Opportunities, Parental Growth Mindset, and Child Academic Skills
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Diana Leyva; Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado; Christina Weiland; Anna Shapiro – Early Education and Development, 2024
Associations between home learning opportunities, parental growth mindset (the belief that intelligence is malleable), and children's academic skills have been documented primarily in European descent communities. Less is known about other communities. This study examined associations among home learning opportunities, parental mindsets, and child…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Home Study, Parent Attitudes
L2 Vocabulary Acquisition of Early Sequentially Bilingual Children with TD and DLD Affected Differently by Exposure and Age of Onset
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Smolander, Sini; Laasonen, Marja; Arkkila, Eva; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Kunnari, Sari – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Language exposure is known to be a key factor influencing bilingual vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. There is, however, a lack of knowledge in terms of exposure effects in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and, especially, in interaction with age of onset (AoO) of second language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, Young Children
Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised (SUGAR): Quantitative Values for Language Sample Analysis Measures in 7- to 11-Year-Old Children
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Owens, Robert E.; Pavelko, Stacey L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to document whether mean length of utterance[subscript SUGAR] (MLU[subscript S]), total number of words (TNW), clauses per sentence (CPS), and/or words per sentence (WPS) demonstrated age-related changes in children with typically developing language, aged 7;0-10;11 (years;months). Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Sentences, Grammar, Language Usage
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and IsiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children
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Joanine Hester Nel; Frenette Southwood; Michelle Jennifer White – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages…
Descriptors: African Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Classification
Frequency of Instructional Practices in Rural Prekindergarten Classrooms and Associations with Child Language and Literacy Skills
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Bratsch-Hines, Mary E.; Burchinal, Margaret; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Franco, Ximena – Grantee Submission, 2019
Although publicly-funded prekindergarten (pre-k) programs have been designed to promote children's school readiness, programs have tended to support early literacy skills to a greater degree than early language skills. Given the importance of both language and literacy skills for children's reading acquisition and academic achievement, the present…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Rural Schools, Teaching Methods, Incidence
Language Insights for Caregivers with Young Children
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
How to help babies and young children right from birth to become competent in talking as well as emergent literacy is illustrated by research findings as well as with specific clinical stories. Both kinds of knowledge can serve to galvanize parents and teachers to increase awareness of infant and preschool language development and the crucial role…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Caregiver Role