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Aurora, Melina; Farkas, George – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study provides estimates for the impact of centre-based care participation during pre-kindergarten on Latino children's academic readiness skills at kindergarten-entry. Using the ECLS-K:2011 dataset, findings indicate that Latino children who participated in centre-based care during their pre-kindergarten year had significantly higher English…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Kindergarten
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Davis, Alexandra N.; Qi, Cathy H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This longitudinal study examined the moderating roles of language use and gender in the relations between maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing behaviour problems in 242 preschool children (48% girls) enrolled in Head Start centres. Teachers and parents completed the "Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1 1/2-5." Mothers…
Descriptors: Correlation, Depression (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Spanish Speaking
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Sawyer, Brook E.; Manz, Patricia H.; Martin, Kristin A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Guided by Bronfenbrenner's bio-ecological theory of human development and Moll's theory of funds of knowledge, the aim of this qualitative study was to examine the beliefs of parents and early childhood teachers on (a) the language development of Spanish-speaking preschool dual language learners (DLLs) and (b) how they can collaborate to support…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Second Language Learning, Parent Attitudes
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Jones, Deborah – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This paper provides a review of oracy in primary education (5-11) in England. It discusses the nature of talk, acknowledging it as integral to the learning and teaching process and traces the history and development of the place of oracy within the curriculum. The article provides a critique of related policy initiatives including various…
Descriptors: Oral Language, National Curriculum, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Ren, Yonggang; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine; Andronos, Fabia; Wyver, Shirley – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Previous research mainly with monolingual children shows a positive relationship between English skills and emotion regulation. No study to date has examined if or how learning of grammatical morphemes might be associated with emotion regulation among bilingual preschoolers. This study examined how Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers performed…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Grammar, Morphemes, Emotional Adjustment
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Ahmad, Jamal; Fayez, Merfat; Al-Zboon, Eman Khleif – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This study aimed to ascertain the nature of curriculum activities in Jordanian preschools. Fifteen preschools participated in the study. Data were collected by observing the children in their daily routines, as well as analysing their writings and drawings. Data were translated from Arabic to English before analysing it. Four main categories were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Observation
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Mueller, Vannesa; Sepulveda, Amanda – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Introduction: Baby sign language is gaining in popularity. However, research has indicated a lack of empirical research supporting its use. In addition, research suggests that baby sign training may increase stress levels in parents. Methods: Nine families with children ranging in age from six months to two years; five months participated in a…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Infants, Workshops, Interpersonal Communication
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Huennekens, Mary Ellen; Xu, Yaoying – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study examined the effects of an early reading intervention on preschool-age dual language learners' (DLL) early literacy skills. Instruction in phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge was embedded in interactive reading strategies, also known as dialogic reading. A single subject multiple baseline across subjects design was applied to…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Phonological Awareness
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Davis, Heather S.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn; Saenz, Laura M.; Soares, Denise A.; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina; Hagan-Burke, Shanna – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to explore within-group patterns of variability in the home literacy environments (HLEs) of low-income Latino families using latent profile analysis. Participants were (N = 193) families of Latino preschoolers enrolled in a larger study. In the fall of 2012, mothers filled out a family literacy practices inventory, a…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Family Literacy, Hispanic Americans, Statistical Analysis
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Bingham, Gary E.; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study investigated the effect of full- and half-day kindergarten programmes on English language learners (ELL) and English-only-speaking children's literacy and mathematics performance in a large urban school district. Considerations were given to how the length of the school day, children's language status (ELL and non-ELL), and children's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Kindergarten, English
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Li, Liang; Fleer, Marilyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
How parent-child interaction effectively supports children's bilingual heritage language development in a shared book-reading practice is an under-researched area. The in-depth study reported in this paper examined an episode of one child, a four-year-old girl and her father, reading an English story in Chinese. Approximately 70 hours of video…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Reading Aloud to Others, Bilingualism
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Macrory, Gee – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
This paper presents evidence from a French-English bilingual child between the ages of two years three months and three years five months, growing up bilingually from birth, with a French mother and English father in an English speaking environment. In focussing upon questions in the child's two languages, and charting in some detail the emergence…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, English, Toddlers
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Nitsiou, Chrisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
As our world becomes increasingly multicultural in nature, multilingual skills constitute an everyday phenomenon in schools. Since most of the second-language research has focused on school-age students, more research had to be conducted with language-minority students at the kindergarten level in order for psychologists and educators to develop…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
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Duursma, Elisabeth; Pan, Barbara A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Most research on parental bookreading has focused on mothers reading to their children. This study examined bookreading practices among approximately 800 fathers and mothers in low-income families. We looked at differences and similarities between families where both parents read frequently compared to families where only mothers read frequently.…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Family Environment, Toddlers, Parent Participation
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Souto-Manning, Mariana – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
As a first-grade teacher preparing for the upcoming year, I was shocked to learn that George was on my new roll. His previous teacher wrote that George was a "behaviour problem", was defiant, talked back to adults, didn't speak properly, was behind academically and spent over half of kindergarten in detention. George initially gave me negative…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Discourse Analysis, English, Elementary School Students
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