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Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cross-language transfer of the emergent literacy skills of preschoolers who were Spanish-speaking language-minority children in the context of an experimental intervention study. Ninety-four children were randomly assigned either to a control condition (HighScope Preschool Curriculum) or to receive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Minority Group Children, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy
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Verhallen, Marian J. A. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Children from immigrant, low-income families in the Netherlands start school with a limited vocabulary in the language of instruction; therefore, this places them at risk for developing reading difficulties. Exposure to books is assumed to reduce their 2nd language (L2) vocabulary disadvantage. In this experiment, we examined the effects of video…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development