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Akhtar, Nameera; Jipson, Jennifer; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 2001
Three studies examined 2-year-olds' ability to learn novel words when overhearing these words used by others. Found that children ages 2.5 years were equally good at learning novel object labels and action verbs when they were overhearers as when they were directly addressed. For younger 2-year-olds, this was true for object labels, but results…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Rado, Marta – 1986
Two studies investigated: (1) aspects of the language of native-English-speaking (ES) and non-native-English-speaking (NES) parents of children learning English and (2) the demands made on the listening of young children learning English from native-speaking parents and non-native-speaking parents. Information in the parent study was drawn from…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)