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Sonali Nag; Gideon Arulmani; Dhir Jhingran; Jelena Mirkovic; Alis Oancea; Margaret Snowling – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
High-quality oral language interventions support children's readiness for formal literacy instruction, and yet guidance for multilingual classrooms is not available. To address this gap, we drew on the empirical literature on linguistically diverse learners, classroom linguistic environments, and usage-based theories to identify principles for…
Descriptors: Oral Language, School Readiness, Heuristics, Teaching Methods
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Hwa-Froelich, Deborah A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Approximately 20,000 children are adopted from foreign countries each year. Of these children, approximately 46% are adopted before they are 12 months old and 43% are adopted between 1 and 4 years of age. The development of children adopted from abroad before or by 2 years of age is the focus of this article. Given the impoverished language input…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Intervention, Toddlers, Infants