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Banse, Holland W. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Dual language learners are a steadily growing student population in several countries, including the United States -- and especially in early childhood. Consequently, any efforts to develop strong early childhood programming must include practices which support multiple areas of DLLs' development. From a domain-specific lens, I synthesize the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Early Childhood Education, Second Language Learning, Literacy Education
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Temiz, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aims to investigate narrative competence of bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) before and after they were involved in fourteen weeks of Turkish storytelling activities. Fifteen bilingual children from low-SES backgrounds participated in this research. Bilingual children first produced narratives using Mercer Mayer's…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Low Income, Bilingualism, Story Grammar
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Torres, Kelly M.; Arrastia-Chisholm, Meagan C. – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Learning a new language and culture may be particularly difficult for families in the United States supported by migrant workers, who typically work long hours and live a mobile lifestyle. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe the interaction patterns (i.e. use of the Spanish and English languages) among native-Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Child Development, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Migrants
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Palacios, Natalia; Kibler, Amanda K.; Simpson Baird, Ashley – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
We utilize a within-group framework to understand the association between childcare type and the language-use and vocabulary of second-generation Latino immigrant children. The sample was drawn from a study of a suburban/rural immigrant community to study the role of home experiences on the early language and literacy of young Latino preschoolers…
Descriptors: Child Care, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Auleear Owodally, Ambarin Mooznah – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
While the extant literature has highlighted the important contribution of home literacy experiences to early literacy development, limited research has been carried out among children living in postcolonial contexts, where there is a mismatch between the home and school language. Such is the case of Mauritius. The present exploratory case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mother Attitudes, Multilingualism, Interviews
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Baker, Fiona S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
A challenge of today's teacher preparation programmes is to educate teachers about families formed through international adoption and of the challenges they face, in order to meet their educational needs. This population has a unique developmental history affected by pre- and post-adoption conditions which stand to impact on learning experiences…
Descriptors: Adoption, Foreign Countries, Student Needs, Child Development