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Elmquist, Marianne; Finestack, Lizbeth H.; Kriese, Amanda; Lease, Erin M.; McConnell, Scott R. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Parents play an important role in creating home language environments that promote language development. A nonequivalent group design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based implementation of LENA Startâ„¢, a parent-training program aimed at increasing the quantity of adult words (AWC) and conversational turns (CT). Parent-child…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Child Language
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Wasik, Barbara A.; Bond, Mary Alice; Hindman, Annemarie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
A language and literacy intervention was implemented in 10 Head Start classrooms. Teachers were trained in specific book reading and conversation strategies. The focus of the intervention was to train teachers how to increase opportunities for language and vocabulary development in young children. At the end of the year, children in the…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention