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Direct linkYau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M[subscript age] = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Children
van der Pluijm, Martine; van Gelderen, Amos; Lusse, Mariette; Kessels, Joseph – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The parental role in supporting young children's oral language development at home is crucial for children's language and literacy development. However, there is limited expertise in how teachers can support lower-educated parents effectively to enhance their interactions with their children and stimulate the use of language.…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Young Children, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
Okur-Atas, Sükran; Berument, Sibel Kazak – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examined the relationship between poverty (income-to-needs ratio [INR], parent education, material hardship, and food insecurity) and children's school readiness (vocabulary, mathematic skills, and phonological awareness) through the mediating roles of stimulation and chaos in the home environment, maternal…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Poverty, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Lau, Carrie; Wang, Ying; Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Chen, Eva E.; McBride, Catherine; Tse, Shek Kam; Richards, Ben; Rao, Nirmala – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: This study evaluated the impact of Chinese literacy interventions on Chinese language learning of South Asian children and their mothers in Hong Kong. A total of 44 children and eight of their mothers participated in Chinese literacy interventions that consisted of two approaches -- Copying and Morphological Awareness Training…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Simmons, Fiona R.; Soto-Calvo, Elena; Adams, Anne-Marie; Francis, Hannah N.; Patel, Hannah; Giofrè, David – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The study investigated whether preschool code-related home literacy experiences had direct associations with regular and irregular word reading in the first year of primary school as well as exploring whether there were indirect associations between these experiences and later word reading via children's language skills or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Niklas, Frank; Cohrssen, Caroline; Tayler, Collette – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Young children develop numeracy competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Such interactions typically occur in the home numeracy environment (HNE). In this study a nonintensive intervention procedure was developed to improve both the HNE and numerical competencies. All parents of 113 Australian children…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Family Environment
Mendive, Susana; Lissi, María Rosa; Bakeman, Roger; Reyes, Adriana – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: To extend findings that are mainly based on North American studies with English speakers, we studied 989 Chilean mothers from households of low socioeconomic status and their prekindergarten children, posing 2 questions: (a) Do mothers' self-reported practices about literacy development predict early literacy outcomes over and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Low Income, Parent Child Relationship
Curenton, Stephanie M.; Craig, Michelle Jones; Flanigan, Nadia – Early Education and Development, 2008
This study examined 33 mothers' and preschoolers' oral language skills (decontextualized discourse) across an emergent reading, shared reading, and oral storytelling interaction. The sample comprised primarily African American families from various socioeconomic backgrounds, ranging from Head Start families to middle-income families. Two measures…
Descriptors: Mothers, Literacy, Oral Language, Intervention
Peer reviewedCrowley, Susan L.; Taylor, Matthew – Early Education and Development, 1994
Examined the relationship between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of family functioning in families with disabled children. Three measures of family functions indicated that mothers and fathers have different perceptions of family functioning, identify different stressors, and report different sources of support as helpful. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation, Family Environment, Father Attitudes
