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Gender Differences in Toddlers' Language and Participation in Language Activities in Norwegian ECEC Institutions
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Brekke Stangeland, Elisabeth; Lundetrae, Kjersti; Reikerås, Elin – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
A body of studies, which are mostly based on parental reports, have documented gender differences in early language proficiency, and girls tend to outperform boys in both language production and language comprehension. In this study, staff in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care institutions observed language comprehension, word…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parent Attitudes, Gender Differences, Language Proficiency
Differential Relationships between Language Skills and Working Memory in Turkish-Dutch and Native-Dutch First-Graders from Low-Income Families
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Bosman, Anna M. T.; Janssen, Marije – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
In the Netherlands, Turkish-Dutch children constitute a substantial group of children who learn to speak Dutch at the age of four after they learned to speak Turkish. These children are generally academically less successful. Academic success appears to be affected by both language proficiency and working memory skill. The goal of this study was…
Descriptors: Turkish, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory
Relationships between Receptive Vocabulary in English and Cantonese Proficiency among Five-Year-Old Hong Kong Kindergarten Children
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Shing, Richard Wong Kwok; Perry, Conrad; MacWhinney, Brian; Oi-ling, Irene Wong – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
There is little consensus among different early childhood education stakeholders in Hong Kong on whether it is beneficial or detrimental for children to receive an English bilingual education before the age of 6. This longitudinal study investigated the issue of potential "detrimental effects of learning English" on Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Kindergarten
Validity of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Measuring Language Abilities in Children with Cochlear Implants
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Thal, Donna; DesJardin, Jean L.; Eisenberg, Laurie S. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To examine the validity of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) for measuring language abilities in children with profound hearing loss who are using cochlear implants. Method: Twenty-four children with cochlear implants and their mothers participated in this study. Children ranged in age from 32 months to 86…
Descriptors: Validity, Measures (Individuals), Mothers, Deafness
The Discriminant Predictive Validity of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales.
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Hagtvet, Knut A.; Hagtvet, Bente E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1990
The discriminant validity of two subscales of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales (RDLS) was investigated using data from 225 children given the RDLS at age 4 and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at age 5. Results support the hypothesis; the RDLS scales measure distinct but correlated language abilities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Construct Validity, Discriminant Analysis, Expressive Language