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Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study investigated the direct relationship between home play opportunity and prospective school readiness, and the indirect relationships as mediated through object and social mastery motivation among Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 local children (44.4% girls, mean age = 60.0 months) and their parents and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mastery Learning, School Readiness, Play
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Jin Kim; Hae Min Yu – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Immigrant families who represent a growing share of the early schooling population face unique challenges related to involvement in their children's education. This study examined whether and to what extent home-based parent involvement and parental warmth are associated with the socio-emotional and academic outcomes of children…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Affective Behavior, Child Development
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Xia, Xiaoying; Hackett, Rachelle Kisst; Webster, Linda – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: This study examined the moderating role of parenting style in the relations between different dimensions of parental involvement and their children's school readiness. A total of 311 Chinese parents ("Mean age" = 35.74, SD = 4.61) and their kindergarten children ("Mean age" = 5.53, SD = 0.50) participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parenting Styles
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Xie, Sha; Wu, Dandan; Liang, Luyao – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Since 2011, China has started to loosen its tight on the One-child Policy (OCP), which has impacted parent's child-rearing beliefs and the provision of home learning environment that constitutes family environment. Utilizing parent-reported data on 4,364 zero- to eight-year-olds from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS, wave…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Profiles, Predictor Variables, Family Structure
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Haft, Stephanie L.; Gys, Christopher L.; Bunge, Silvia; Uchikoshi, Yuuko; Zhou, Qing – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Using two groups of dual language learners (DLLs), the current study examined links between two developmental constructs closely linked to school readiness: the home language environment (HLE) and executive function (EF). In a sample of 90 children (age range = 38-70 months, 59% girls) from either Mexican American (MA, N = 46)…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Stites, Michele; Ross, Amanda – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: During COVID-19 many countries, including the U.S., implemented stay-at-home policies that closed most schools and childcare centers. This research focuses on the home learning environment reported by parents for U.S. children ages two through nine during the COVID-19 crisis. Parents in the U.S. (N = 162) completed an online…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, School Closing, Electronic Learning
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Cui, Yiran; Zhang, Danhui; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study employed data from the TIMSS 2015 survey to investigate whether parental educational involvement behaviour in early childhood and parental attitudes towards education can enhance children's mathematics achievement in the 4th grade via influencing children's learning interests. Samples from Singapore (N=6237) and Hong…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Influence, Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Gay, Brittany; Sonnenschein, Susan; Sun, Shuyan; Baker, Linda – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Parent involvement is a critical way for children to learn about the importance of education and develop reading skills. Unfortunately, not all low-income parents are able to be involved in their children's education, which can have negative implications for children's reading development. The present study tested if the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Parent Participation, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
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Korucu, Irem; Litkowski, Ellen; Schmitt, Sara A. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The purpose of the current study was to investigate direct associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and preschool children's executive function (EF), academic readiness, and social-emotional competence and to explore the indirect association between the HLE and academic and social-emotional outcomes working…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Correlation, Executive Function
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Zhang, Xinyi; Lau, Carrie; Su, Yufen – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the relationship between the home environment and the development of English as a second/foreign language for young Asian children. A systematic search of relevant databases generated 22 eligible studies published between 2001 and 2020 (N[subscript…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Meta Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Willard, Jessica A.; Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Are family literacy activities linked to gains in preschool-aged dual language learners' (DLLs') societal language vocabulary? To understand connections between literacy activities and vocabulary, we separately considered literacy activities in the respective heritage language and in the societal language, German, and accounted…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Native Language, Turkish
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Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Purtell, Kelly M.; Justice, Laura M.; Pratt, Amy S.; Hijlkema, Maria J. – Early Education and Development, 2020
This study provides a broad, macro-analysis of how the home literacy environment (HLE) manifests among Mayan families with preschool-aged children in Yucatan, Mexico. Despite a substantial body of work showing the significant contribution of the HLE to children's reading achievement in the U.S., little work examines the HLE and children's learning…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Family Literacy, Family Environment, Preschool Children
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Simmons, Fiona R.; Soto-Calvo, Elena; Adams, Anne-Marie; Francis, Hannah N.; Patel, Hannah; Giofrè, David – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The study investigated whether preschool code-related home literacy experiences had direct associations with regular and irregular word reading in the first year of primary school as well as exploring whether there were indirect associations between these experiences and later word reading via children's language skills or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Niklas, Frank; Cohrssen, Caroline; Tayler, Collette – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Young children develop numeracy competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Such interactions typically occur in the home numeracy environment (HNE). In this study a nonintensive intervention procedure was developed to improve both the HNE and numerical competencies. All parents of 113 Australian children…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Family Environment
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Missall, Kristen; Hojnoski, Robin L.; Caskie, Grace I. L.; Repasky, Patrick – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Early mathematical skills and knowledge are strongly related to long-term achievement, and yet the knowledge base regarding the mechanisms through which young children develop these skills and knowledge is limited. Although research has examined the relation of the home numeracy environment and children's early mathematics…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Family Environment, Preschool Children, Mathematics Activities
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