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The Associations of Parental Support with First-Grade Primary School L2 Chinese Learners' Ideal Selves, Motivation, Engagement, and Reading Test Performance in Hong Kong: A Person-Centered Approach
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Zhu, Xinhua; Chan, Shui Duen; Yao, Yuan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: With a sample of 390 non-Chinese speaking first-grade primary school students and their parents in Hong Kong, this study examines associations between parental support and students' ideal selves, motivation, engagement, and Chinese reading test performance. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified four groups of students (low-,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese
The Role of Home Literacy Practices in Kindergarten Children's Early Writing Development: A One-Year Longitudinal Study
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Guo, Ying; Puranik, Cynthia; Kelcey, Ben; Sun, Jing; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Breit-Smith, Allison – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Home literacy practices are an important variable in the development of literacy skills among children. However, several questions regarding the relationship between home literacy practices and writing are unanswered. The objective of this correlational study is to examine the relationship between reading-related and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Literacy Education
African American Fathers' Contributions to Children's Early Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two-Parent Families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort
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Baker, Claire E. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study utilized a large sample ("N" = 750) of 2-parent families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort to examine the contributions of African American fathers' home literacy involvement, play activities, and caregiving at 24 months to children's reading and math achievement in…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, African American Family, Fathers, Evidence
The Relationship between Maternal Beliefs and Behavior during Shared Reading
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Meagher, Susan M.; Arnold, David H.; Doctoroff, Greta L.; Baker, Courtney N. – Early Education and Development, 2008
The goal of the present study was to increase understanding of the connection between maternal beliefs and behavior during shared reading and to examine the relation of these maternal beliefs to children's reading engagement. The study included survey and observational data from an ethnically diverse sample of 50 mothers and their 5- to 6-year-old…
Descriptors: Mothers, Gender Differences, Reading Aloud to Others, Young Children
Relations among Maternal Literacy Beliefs, Home Literacy Practices, and the Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschoolers with Specific Language Impairment
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Skibbe, Lori E.; Justice, Laura M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; McGinty, Anita S. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Self-reported maternal literacy beliefs and home literacy practices were compared for families of children with typicially developing language skills (TL, n = 52) and specific language impairment (SLI, n = 56). Additionally, the present work examined whether maternal beliefs and practices predicted children's print-related knowledge. Mothers…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Emergent Literacy, Language Skills, Family Literacy
Low Income African American Mothers' Parenting Stress and Instructional Strategies To Promote Peer Relationships in Preschool Children.
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Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan – Early Education and Development, 1999
Investigated stress among low-income African-American mothers as predictor of their instructional strategies for promoting preschoolers' peer relationships. Found that, as stress increased, mothers more frequently used strategies reducing their child's antisocial behavior and less frequently used strategies promoting prosocial behavior. With…
Descriptors: Blacks, Early Childhood Education, Low Income Groups, Mothers
Child, Program, and Family Ecological Variables in Early Intervention.
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Marfo, Kofi; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1992
Three classes of variables were used to predict three indices of intervention outcomes for children with handicaps and developmental delays. Results suggest the important role of nonprogram variables in determining outcomes in programs that train parents to teach preacademic, communication, social, self-help, and motor development skills.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities