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Let's Talk! An Interactive Intervention to Support Children's Language Development
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Lake, 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
The Effect of Three Interactive Reading Approaches on Language Ability: An Exploratory Study in Early Childhood Education
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van der Wilt, Femke; Boerma, Inouk; van Oers, Bert; van der Veen, Chiel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Language ability plays a major role in children's future development. In the present study, the effect of three interactive reading approaches on children's language ability was investigated through a pre-posttest design. Participants were N = 73 children (aged 4-6) from three early childhood education classrooms. Classrooms were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, Pretests Posttests, Child Development