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Jing, Mengguo; Ye, Ting; Kirkorian, Heather L.; Mares, Marie-Louise – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis synthesizes research on media use in early childhood (0-6 years), word-learning, and vocabulary size. Multi-level analyses included 266 effect sizes from 63 studies (N[subscript total] = 11,413) published between 1988-2022. Among samples with information about race/ethnicity (51%) and sex/gender (73%), most were majority…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Preschool Children, Race
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Constantia Charalampous – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Inclusion of students with marginalization tendencies has been one of the demands in the field of education over the last decades, but it remains unrealized. At the same time, our daily lives appear to have changed rapidly because of extensive use of digital media. This fact may have both positive and negative consequences. So, we were inspired to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Minority Group Students, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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De Wilde, Vanessa; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper the incidental language acquisition of 11-year-old Flemish children (n = 30) who have not received any formal English instruction is investigated. The study looks into children's English proficiency and the learner characteristics that can be associated with it. In order to measure the children's English proficiency, a receptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Linguistic Input, Native Language
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Hofferth, Sandra L.; Moon, Ui Jeong – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Adolescents' time spent messaging, exploring websites, and studying on the computer increased between 2003 and 2008. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement, this study examines how such changes have influenced individual achievement and behavior from childhood to adolescence. Greater communications and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Child Development, Computer Mediated Communication