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Miriam Minkov; Dorit Aram – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Today, many children worldwide grow up in bilingual or multilingual families. This study explores early literacy development in Russian-Hebrew bilingual families in Israel. It studies the contribution of the home literacy environment (HLE), the language of communication, and the nature of the maternal writing support in Hebrew and Russian, to…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Russian, Bilingualism, Emergent Literacy
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Mendive, Susana; Mascareño Lara, Mayra; Aldoney, Daniela; Pérez, J. Carola; Pezoa, José P. – Child Development, 2020
This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children's language and early literacy growth from prekindergarten to kindergarten. Participants were 1,425 Chilean mothers and their children…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy
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Harrison, Eugene; McTavish, Marianne – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
Children today are growing up in a digital world that is changing and advancing at an unprecedented rate. While some adults may struggle to keep up with new technological gadgets, we find our very young may be quite at ease with the use of digital technologies, even before learning to speak. This study builds on a foundation of family literacy…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Native Language
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Choi, Jayoung – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
It has long been acknowledged that immigrant children who are originally exposed to home languages become rapidly socialized into using only English. Although many children ultimately develop receptive skills in their home language, they often become English dominant and rarely have the opportunity for literacy development. There is also a common…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Emergent Literacy, Alphabets, Writing (Composition)