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Asadi, Mozhgan; Zarifian, Talieh; Kazemi, Mehdi Dastjerdi; Ghaedamini Harouni, Gholamreza – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This mixed two-way experimental, cross-sectional study investigated fast-mapping (FM) of novel nouns and verbs in 63 Persian-speaking toddlers aged 30 months, including 31 late-talking (LT) and 32 typically developing (TD) matched with respect to age and maternal education. Toddlers were classified as LT if they had limited expressive vocabulary…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Indo European Languages, Cognitive Mapping, Nouns
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Ergül, Cevriye; Ökcün Akçamus, Meral Çilem; Akoglu, Gözde; Demir, Ergül; Tülü, Burcu Kiliç; Bahap Kudret, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study investigated endogenous and exogenous predictors of early literacy in Turkish-speaking children. Whether children's language and working memory performances (as the endogenous factors) and home literacy environment (as the exogenous factor) in the beginning of kindergarten predict the children's current and year-end early literacy…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Predictor Variables, Emergent Literacy
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Nordberg, Ann; Jacobsson, Katharina – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study aimed to investigate how 33 preschool teachers' and 30 special educational needs teachers in Swedish preschools documented and described children's speech, language and communication development. The views on concepts as 'scientific basis', 'proven experience' and ways to follow language development for children in need of extra-support…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Teacher Attitudes
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Xu, Yaoying; De Arment, Serra – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The early childhood literature has documented the impact of early literacy experience on children's later language and literacy development. The research also showed the achievement gap between children from lower socio-economic status and their peers from more economically advantaged backgrounds. To address this gap, the existing literature has…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Manz, Patricia H.; Bracaliello, Catherine B.; Pressimone, Vanessa J.; Eisenberg, Rachel A.; Gernhart, Amanda C.; Fu, Qiong; Zuniga, Cesar – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This quasi-experimental study examined expressive vocabulary outcomes for Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) toddlers, after one year of home-visiting services. First, this study applied Rasch modelling to establish the construct validity and reliability of a widely used expressive vocabulary measure, as modified for a sample of ethnic and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Outcomes of Education
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Ringsmose, Charlotte; Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte Alexandra; Allerup, Peter – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
There is an increasing focus on early-childhood education quality globally, reflecting a growing political awareness that education starts earlier than primary school, and that high quality in day-care influence children's learning and development. In Denmark, almost all children attend day-care, and day-care institutions are considered part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
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Benzies, Karen; Edwards, Nancy; Tough, Suzanne; Nagan, Kimberly; Mychasiuk, Richelle; Keown, Leslie-Anne; Donnelly, Carlene – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
We evaluated the effectiveness of a two-generation preschool programme (centre-based early childhood education, parenting education and family support) on receptive language skills in children living in culturally diverse families with low income. Using a with-in subject pre-test/post-test design, children (N = 112) showed a statistically…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Receptive Language