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Richardson, Tanya – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
This paper discusses the innovative research method of using body-worn cameras for capturing speech and experiences of 3- to 5-year olds in English early years settings. The strengths and weaknesses will be discussed in this multiple case study approach to capturing the quality of speech from young children (n = 43). Adopting an interactionist…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Classroom Observation Techniques, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
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Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Greenwood, Charles R.; Carta, Judith J. – NHSA Dialog, 2011
We investigated Early Head Start home visitors' use of evidence-based practices and the effectiveness of a web-based system to support these practices. Home visitors learned to use 3 evidence-based practices: (a) frequent assessment of children's early communication for screening and progress monitoring, (b) 2 home-based language promoting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits
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Guasti, Maria Teresa – Language Acquisition, 1995
Argues that early French relative clauses (RCs) with gaps involve movement of the relative head. The article suggests that children lack relative operators for maturational reasons. This account shows that the deviation of early RCs from adult grammar is due to this lacuna and is compensated for in a manner consistent with Universal Grammar. (39…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Data Collection, French
Hall, William S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1979
A research project combining ethnographic and experimental methods is currently underway to assess whether minority groups use language in ways that put their children at a disadvantage in school. The project, which focuses on social, cognitive, and educational consequences of different patterns of language function and use, has involved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Child Language, Cultural Differences
Christian, Jane M.
This document is a report on English acquisition by a 2-year old Gujarati-speaking child. Overall language development is dealt with only partially. Two aspects of this development are concentrated on. These are (1) phonological accomodation of English and Gujarati in a changing and increasing system, and (2) concentration of English lexemes in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection