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Altindag Kumas, Özlem; Sümer Dodur, Halime Miray; Yüzbasioglu, Yasemin – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
The purpose of this study is to analyze the name writing skills, print knowledge, phonological awareness, and letter knowledge skills of preschool Turkish children of different socioeconomic levels concerning various variables. This study also analyzes the predictiveness of name writing in supporting early literacy skills of children. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Writing Skills, Phonological Awareness
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Sultana, Nuzhat; Wong, Lena L. N.; Purdy, Suzanne C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The current study was designed to investigate the differences in language input related to family factors (maternal level of education [MLE] and socioeconomic level of deprivation [SLD]) and their association with language outcomes in preschoolers. Method: This study used New Zealand SLD and MLE classification systems to examine…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
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López Pérez, David; Tomalski, Przemyslaw; Radkowska, Alicja; Ballieux, Haiko; Moore, Derek G. – First Language, 2021
Efficient visual exploration in infancy is essential for cognitive and language development. It allows infants to participate in social interactions by attending to faces and learning about objects of interest. Visual scanning of scenes depends on a number of factors, and early differences in efficiency are likely contributing to differences in…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Body, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition
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Fung, Wing-kai; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Social mastery motivation and parental response are important correlates of children's vocabulary and self-regulation skills, but little research has examined their relationships collectively. This study investigated the direct relationships among social mastery motivation (active interaction and positive affect frequencies), parental response,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Vocabulary Development, Self Control, Skill Development
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Moscardino, Ughetta; Miconi, Diana; Carraro, Luciana – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The current study examined levels of implicit and explicit independent and interdependent self-construals (SCs) in early adolescents with and without a migration background in Italy and assessed whether SCs were linked to youths' positive adjustment in terms of self-esteem and prosocial behavior. Chinese early adolescents of immigrant background…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Cultural Background, Early Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior
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Lohndorf, Regina T.; Vermeer, Harriet J.; Cárcamo, Rodrigo A.; Mesman, Judi – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Preschoolers' vocabulary acquisition sets the stage for later reading ability and school achievement. This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy-seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower-middle-class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Socioeconomic Status
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Molloy, Grace; Murtagh, Lelia; McAvinue, Laura P. – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
Educational disadvantage remains a serious issue in Irish society. Research has suggested that differing styles and levels of competence in oral language may have implications for educational attainment across socio-economic groups. The current study involved an examination of the oral language competence of Irish children in Junior Infants in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Competence
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Williams, Aya Inamori; Uchikoshi, Yuuko; Bunge, Silvia A.; Zhou, Qing – Early Education and Development, 2019
This study examined the concurrent relations of English (EL) and heritage language (HL) proficiency to executive functions (EF) among low-income dual language learners (DLLs) from immigrant families. In a sample of 90 children (age = 38-70 months) from Chinese-speaking Chinese American and Spanish-speaking Mexican American families recruited from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
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Gatlin, Brandy; Wanzek, Jeanne; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
Understanding differences in oral language abilities is vital, particularly for children from low-income homes and minority children who are at an increased risk for academic failure because of differences or deficits in language use or exposure before they enter school. The purpose of this study was to investigate oral language performance,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Kindergarten, African American Students
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Cohen, Cathy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
The input factors that may cause variation in bilingual proficiency were investigated in 38 French-English bilinguals aged six to eight, of middle-to-high socio-economic status, attending an international state school in France. Data on children's current and cumulative language exposure and family background were collected through questionnaires…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingual Students, French, English
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Cockcroft, Kate – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This study compared bilingual and monolingual school beginners on measures of simple and complex verbal working memory and receptive and expressive vocabulary. The aim was to determine whether the tests of working memory are fairer measures of language ability than the vocabulary tests for bilingual children when tested in their second language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Verbal Communication
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Gauthier, Karine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We assessed the language, cognitive, and socioemotional abilities of 27 internationally adopted children from China, adopted by French-speaking parents, 12 of whom had been assessed previously by Gauthier and Genesee. The children were on average 7 years, 10 months old and were matched to nonadopted monolingual French-speaking children on age,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Adoption, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication
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Gridley, Nicole; Baker-Henningham, Helen; Hutchings, Judy – Child Care in Practice, 2016
Poor language skills can have a negative effect on a developing child if not identified early. Current strategies to identify families with children who may need additional support are limited, and may not detect child language problems before they become entrenched. The present study explores observed indices of parental language as a means of…
Descriptors: Observation, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language, Toddlers
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Iruka, Iheoma U.; Dotterer, Aryn M.; Pungello, Elizabeth P. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Grounded in the investment model and informed by the integrative theory of the study of minority children, this study used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data set, a nationally representative sample of young children, to investigate whether the association between socioeconomic status (family income and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Han, Jisu; Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
This study examined interactions between preschool children and parents during shared book reading by analyzing parental self-report data. Using confirmatory factor analytic procedures and structural equation modeling, this study developed a scale measuring meaning-related and print-related reading interactions and examined their associations with…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Skills
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