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van der Pluijm, Martine; van Gelderen, Amos; Lusse, Mariette; Kessels, Joseph – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The parental role in supporting young children's oral language development at home is crucial for children's language and literacy development. However, there is limited expertise in how teachers can support lower-educated parents effectively to enhance their interactions with their children and stimulate the use of language.…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Young Children, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
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Bosma, Evelyn; Blom, Elma – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research has shown that in a minority-majority language context, the quantity of language input at home is more important for the development of the minority language than for the development of the majority language. In the current study, we examined whether the same holds true for the frequency of specific language activities at home.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
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Dirks, Evelien; Stevens, Angela; Kok, Sigrid; Frijns, Johan; Rieffe, Carolien – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH). The linguistic input to eighteen toddlers with MHL and twenty-four toddlers with NH was examined during a 10-minute free-play activity in their home environment. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments
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Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan-Dutch (n = 46) and Turkish-Dutch (n = 55) 3-year-olds, speaking Tarifit-Berber, a nonscripted language, and Turkish as their first language (L1), respectively. Despite…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages
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Peeters, Marieke; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Balkom, Hans; de Moor, Jan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Various aspects of the home literacy environment are considered to stimulate the emergent literacy development in children without disabilities. It is important to gain insight into the home literacy environment of children with cerebral palsy given that they have been shown to have difficulty acquiring literacy skills. Aims: The aims…
Descriptors: Age, Socioeconomic Status, Speech Impairments, Cerebral Palsy
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van Tuijl, Cathy; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This study examined whether the effects on cognitive and language outcomes of a recently developed home-based educational intervention program, Opstap Opnieuw, for 4-6-years-old disadvantaged children could be explained by improved mother-child interaction. The present sample (n = 30) was drawn from a larger sample of Turkish-Dutch families (n =…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Observation, Low Income