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Direct linkKelsey Maria Dillehay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current study was to examine the dosage and fidelity of EMT en Español strategies that are posited to drive change in child outcomes. The study is a re-analysis of data collected during the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant "Teaching Spanish-speaking Caregivers to Implement EMT en Español: A Small Randomized…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Intervention, Randomized Controlled Trials, Child Caregivers
Xinye Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation draws on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate the linguistic practices of teachers and children who are learning Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL) in two dual immersion preschools in California. CHL children have been interpreted as novice members in local speech communities who actively explore…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Hatcher, Courtney Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this study, the author examined the effects of training four parents from low-socioeconomic environments to use Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with their young children with language impairment. The investigator used a modified Teach-Model-Coach-Review method to teach parents to use the following EMT strategies during 8-10 individualized,…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Intervention, Young Children, Language Impairments
LeBarton, Eve Angela Sauer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Previous investigators have found significant relations between children's early spontaneous gesture and their subsequent vocabulary development: the more gesture children produce early, the larger their later vocabularies. The questions we address here are (1) whether we can increase children's gesturing through experimental manipulation and, if…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication, Child Language
McLeod, Jennifer Ragan Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research indicates that linguistic input from teachers may affect child vocabulary development in preschool and beyond (Dickinson & Tabors, 2001). Currently, there is little research on the relationship between specific teacher language use in individual interactions on child language outcomes for preschool children at risk for academic delays.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children
Martinovic-Zic, Aida – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study introduces a typological model of the "conceptual language-specific approach" to the L2 research on the acquisition of tense-aspect. The model is based on the typological notion of prominence, classifying languages into tense-prominent and aspect-prominent (Bhat 1999) and the L1 research proposal that language-specific…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Native Language
