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Home Language and Literacy Environments and Early Literacy Trajectories of Low-Socioeconomic Status Chilean Children
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Mendive, Susana; Mascareño Lara, Mayra; Aldoney, Daniela; Pérez, J. Carola; Pezoa, José P. – Child Development, 2020
This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children's language and early literacy growth from prekindergarten to kindergarten. Participants were 1,425 Chilean mothers and their children…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy
Early Communicative Gestures Prospectively Predict Language Development and Executive Function in Early Childhood
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Kuhn, Laura J.; Willoughby, Michael T.; Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Blair, Clancy B. – Child Development, 2014
Using an epidemiological sample (N = 1,117) and a prospective longitudinal design, this study tested the direct and indirect effects of preverbal and verbal communication (15 months to 3 years) on executive function (EF) at age 4 years. Results indicated that whereas gestures (15 months), as well as language (2 and 3 years), were correlated with…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Nonverbal Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Verbal Communication