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Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Smith, Joanne A. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2016
We review the development of the Jamaican home visiting intervention for children under 4 years and its evidence base. The intervention has focused on supporting mothers to promote the development of their children through interacting in a responsive way, labelling the environment and activities. The curriculum is structured and cognitively…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Depression (Psychology), Home Visits
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Torneus, Margit – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
The causal relationship between metaphonological skills (sound blending and segmentation) and reading/spelling was investigated in two studies of first graders. One tested causal models using data from a longitudinal study of 46 dyslexics and 44 control children. The other studied the effects of metaphonological training versus general language…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Dyslexia
Bamford, Kathryn W.; Mizokawa, Donald T. – 1990
The enhanced metalinguistic abilities demonstrated by additive-bilingual children, including superior control of cognitive processing, may promote the development of symbolic reasoning. Children educated in additive-bilingual (immersion) settings may maintain normal native-language development, while acquiring a second language. This study…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Grade 2