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Direct linkLake, Gillian; Evangelou, Maria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
This study developed, delivered and evaluated an interactive intervention, which targeted three- and four-year-old children's oral language. The intervention was carried out over twice-weekly sessions, for ten weeks. The first weekly session was a group shared storybook reading session with a puppet and the second weekly session consisted of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Oral Language, Control Groups
Gasamis, Colin – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Understanding how children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) improve oral language skills in relationship to tutor prompting has not yet been investigated. The study examined how variation in language prompt use by tutors during a storybook reading intervention influences growth in vocabulary and emergent literacy for young children with ASD.…
Descriptors: Tutors, Language Usage, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Ionescu, Thea; Ilie, Adriana – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
In Romanian preschool settings, there is a tendency to use abstract strategies in language-learning activities. The present study explored if strategies based on an embodied cognition approach facilitate learning more than traditional strategies that progress from concrete to abstract. Twenty-five children between 4 and 5 years of age listened to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries, Story Reading
van Druten-Frietman, Loes; Strating, Heleen; Denessen, Eddie; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
A dialogic storybook-based intervention integrating dialogic storybook reading with early literacy activities is studied with a longitudinal quasi-experimental study design. The effects of this intervention, in addition to a regular early childhood education (ECE) program, on kindergartners' vocabulary and phonological awareness development are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Kindergarten, Intervention, Books
Lefebvre, Pascal; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
The current study compares the effects of two shared storybook reading (SSR) interventions on language and emergent literacy skills of low-income preschoolers. The control intervention targeted language and print awareness, skills for which there is strong evidence of the effect of SSR. The experimental intervention added a focus on phonological…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Low Income Groups
Robb, Michael B.; Richert, Rebekah A.; Wartella, Ellen A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examined the relationship between viewing an infant DVD and expressive and receptive language outcomes. Children between 12 and 15 months were randomly assigned to view "Baby Wordsworth," a DVD highlighting words around the house marketed for children beginning at 12 months of age. Viewings took place in home settings over 6 weeks.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Correlation, Receptive Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedVivas, Eleonora – Language Learning, 1996
Reports on an experimental investigation of the effects of a systematic, story-reading-aloud program on some language variables in preschool and first-grade children. Results indicate that both age groups significantly increased their language comprehension and expressions when listening to stories read aloud, either at home or at school. (25…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Experimental Groups
