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Screen Media Exposure and Young Children's Vocabulary Learning and Development: A Meta-Analysis
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Jing, Mengguo; Ye, Ting; Kirkorian, Heather L.; Mares, Marie-Louise – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis synthesizes research on media use in early childhood (0-6 years), word-learning, and vocabulary size. Multi-level analyses included 266 effect sizes from 63 studies (N[subscript total] = 11,413) published between 1988-2022. Among samples with information about race/ethnicity (51%) and sex/gender (73%), most were majority…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Preschool Children, Race
Digital Media and Secondary Education Students: Inclusion or Exclusion?
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Constantia Charalampous – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Inclusion of students with marginalization tendencies has been one of the demands in the field of education over the last decades, but it remains unrealized. At the same time, our daily lives appear to have changed rapidly because of extensive use of digital media. This fact may have both positive and negative consequences. So, we were inspired to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Minority Group Students, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
Game On! Young Learners' Incidental Language Learning of English Prior to Instruction
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De Wilde, Vanessa; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper the incidental language acquisition of 11-year-old Flemish children (n = 30) who have not received any formal English instruction is investigated. The study looks into children's English proficiency and the learner characteristics that can be associated with it. In order to measure the children's English proficiency, a receptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Linguistic Input, Native Language
Electronic Play, Study, Communication, and Adolescent Achievement, 2003-2008
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Hofferth, Sandra L.; Moon, Ui Jeong – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Adolescents' time spent messaging, exploring websites, and studying on the computer increased between 2003 and 2008. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement, this study examines how such changes have influenced individual achievement and behavior from childhood to adolescence. Greater communications and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Child Development, Computer Mediated Communication
Outlooks on Children and Media: Child Rights, Media Trends, Media Research, Media Literacy, Child Participation, Declarations. Compiled for the World Summit on Media for Children (3rd, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23-26, 2001).
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von Feilitzen, Cecilia, Comp.; Bucht, Catharina, Comp. – 2001
This report compiles information on recent and current trends in media literacy, including research on children and media, declarations related to the area, and a selection of relevant organizations and Web sites. The report first delineates children's rights as stipulated in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially as they…
Descriptors: Advertising, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Childrens Rights
Violence in Audio-Visual Media: How Educators Can Respond. ERIC Digest.
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Hepburn, Mary A. – 2001
Over the past 20 years there have been numerous studies and frequent warnings about violent television programs and movies arousing young people to act violently. Researchers have pointed to many hours of viewing excessive violence as a potential contributor to violent behavior by youngsters. This digest examines evidence of violence in television…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Computer Games, Content Analysis, Cultural Awareness