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Duursma, Elisabeth – First Language, 2016
Bookreading is known to benefit young children's language and literacy development. However, research has demonstrated that how adults interact around a book with a child is probably even more important than reading the complete text. Dialogic or interactive reading strategies can promote children's language development more specifically. Little…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Fathers, Mothers, Picture Books
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Gelman, Susan A.; Mannheim, Bruce; Escalante, Carmen; Tapia, Ingrid Sanchez – First Language, 2015
Southern Peruvian Quechua is an indigenous language spoken primarily in rural communities in the Peruvian Andes. The language includes a syntactic construction, "-paq", that expresses purpose or function, thus providing an opportunity to trace how parents and children with little formal education express teleological concepts. The…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries