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Direct linkRichards, Ben; Umayahara, Mami; Maw, Naing; Rao, Nirmala – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study examined the relation between early childhood education (ECE) participation and early child development in Myanmar. It considered whether this relation varied by ethnic group, language(s) spoken at home, and language(s) of ECE instruction. Participants were 1,494 children (759 girls) from Myanmar, aged between 36 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Program Effectiveness
MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Pesco, Diane – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Given their significance in daily life and frequent inclusion in clinical and educational assessments, children's narrative abilities merit investigation. The present study examines the narratives of children acquiring an additional language, adding to the more abundant studies of monolingual children. Sixty kindergartners (mean age 68 months)…
Descriptors: Child Development, French, Kindergarten, Narration
Download full textBryn Lampe; Bridget Healey; Luke Collier; Jen Jackson – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2023
Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings are increasingly linguistically diverse. About 1 in 4 children including First Nations children speak a language other than English at home. However, while many multilingual children thrive in ECEC, those who are not proficient in English at the start of school experience developmental…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Indigenous Populations
Jasinska, Kaja K.; Wolf, Sharon; Jukes, Matthew C. H.; Dubeck, Margaret M. – Developmental Science, 2019
Literacy is a powerful tool against poverty, leading to further education and vocational success. In sub-Saharan Africa, schoolchildren commonly learn in two languages--African and European. Multiple early literacy skills (including phonological awareness and receptive language) support literacy acquisition, but this has yet to be empirically…
Descriptors: Literacy, Multilingualism, Phonological Awareness, African Languages
Barac, Raluca; Bialystok, Ellen – Child Development, 2012
A total of 104 six-year-old children belonging to 4 groups (English monolinguals, Chinese-English bilinguals, French-English bilinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals) were compared on 3 verbal tasks and 1 nonverbal executive control task to examine the generality of the bilingual effects on development. Bilingual groups differed in degree of…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Cultural Background, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
