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Direct linkLingwood, Jamie; Billington, Josie; Rowland, Caroline – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Shared reading interventions can impact positively on preschool children's language development and on their caregiver's attitudes/behaviours towards reading. However, a number of barriers may discourage families from engaging with these interventions, particularly families from lower socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. We…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Attendance, Preschool Children
Reeves, Louisa; Freed, Jenny; Wright, Jonathan; Wood, Elizabeth; Black, Rachael; Hartshorne, Mary; Adams, Catherine – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
Oral language skills in childhood are known to predict literacy levels and academic performance. Identification of children's low-average oral language skills in school is challenging when clear criteria for developmental language disorder are not met. There are few studies of targeted, school-based oral language interventions for the older child.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Communication Skills
Zhang, Yiwen; Xu, Xiaojuan; Jiang, Fan; Gilkerson, Jill; Xu, Dongxin; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Harnsberger, James; Topping, Keith J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
Changes in natural language environments of families receiving quantitative language feedback in Shanghai were investigated. Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 5 to 30 months were recruited from a hospital and a learning center. Quantitative measures of adult word count and conversational turns with children were collected regularly over 6…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Child Caregivers, Young Children, Parent Child Relationship
Fey, Marc E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: This paper is a personal reaction to Gillam and Gillam's treatise on evidence-based decision making in schools. This evaluation focuses principally on the costs and benefits of clinicians' search for external evidence, potential problems associated with efforts to grade that evidence, and the integration of this evidence with "internal"…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Child Language, Language Impairments, Reader Response
Peer reviewedGreenberg, Mark T.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Evaluates a comprehensive intervention program for deaf children under age three in Vancouver, British Columbia. Twelve subjects were compared with a matched sample of children undergoing less-systematic intervention. Results indicated more developmentally mature communication and higher quality interaction in families who had received…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Infants
Peer reviewedHornby, Peter A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Affirms the advantages to the child of early immersion second language learning programs. The second language proficiency of English-speaking Canadian students who received all instruction in French and English-speaking American children who received all instruction in Spanish surpassed that of students in more traditional language programs. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, French
Peer reviewedDiPietro, Robert J. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Evaluates a bilingual/bicultural education pilot program in which native speakers of Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, and English participated. Language classes were integrated within the overall curriculum. School attendance, motivation, language proficiency, and academic grades all improved. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education, Child Language
