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Yuksel, Peri; Lowry, Cass; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2021
This study examined play interactions of 15 to 48-month-old children (n = 59) and their caregivers in Lazuri, a UNESCO-rated endangered South-Caucasian ancestral language, and Turkish, a dominant language supplanting Lazuri usage in the community. Child-caregiver dyads played with two toy sets (animal farm and tea set) that provided different…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Infants, Turkic Languages, Preschool Children
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Pae, Soyeong; Yoon, Hyojin; Seol, Ahyoung; Gilkerson, Jill; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Ma, Lin; Topping, Keith – First Language, 2016
The objective of this study was to investigate changes in the natural language environments of families with typically-developing infants receiving language feedback in South Korea. Volunteer parents of 99 children aged 4-16 months were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. During 6 months' intervention, the experimental group…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Intervention, At Risk Persons, Control Groups
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Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang – First Language, 2017
Children develop linguistic competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Consequently, one way to support this development is by enhancing the home literacy environment (HLE) in which children live. In this study a non-intensive intervention procedure was developed to improve HLE and linguistic competencies of 125 German…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Vocabulary Development