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Grøver, Vibeke; Rydland, Veslemøy; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Snow, Catherine E. – Child Development, 2020
This cluster-randomized controlled study examined dual language learners (DLLs) in Norway who received a book-based language intervention program. About 464 DLLs aged 3-5 years in 123 early childhood classrooms participated in the study. The children were acquiring Norwegian as their second language in preschool and spoke a variety of first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Story Reading, Second Language Instruction, Intervention
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Roberts, Joanne E.; Burchinal, Margaret; Durham, Meghan – Child Development, 1999
Examined how child and family factors influence individual differences in the language development of African-American children between 18 and 30 months of age. Found that vocabulary and utterance length increased linearly. Children from more stimulating and responsive homes had larger vocabularies, used more irregular nouns and verbs, and had…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Youth, Child Development, Comparative Analysis