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Direct linkRice, Mabel L.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Taylor, Catherine L.; Gayán, Javier; Bontempo, Daniel E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study investigated the etiology of late language emergence (LLE) in 24-month-old twins, considering possible twinning, zygosity, gender, and heritability effects for vocabulary and grammar phenotypes. Method: A population-based sample of 473 twin pairs participated. Multilevel modeling estimated means and variances of vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Twins, Toddlers, Genetics, Risk
Liu, Chin-Ting Jimbo; Lee, Hsiu-Fen Hélène – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study intends to shed light on the inconclusive argument pertaining to children's acquisition of logical form (LF) operation. Specifically, we examined children's interpretations of sentences with the ambiguous modal verb "yinggai" "should," like "Xiaohua yinggai shangchuang shuijiao le", whose meanings…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Children, Learning Processes, Verbs
Pye, Clifton; Pfeiler, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This article demonstrates how the Comparative Method can be applied to cross-linguistic research on language acquisition. The Comparative Method provides a systematic procedure for organizing and interpreting acquisition data from different languages. The Comparative Method controls for cross-linguistic differences at all levels of the grammar and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Research Methodology
Song, Lulu; Spier, Elizabeth T.; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
We examined reciprocal associations between early maternal language use and children's language and cognitive development in seventy ethnically diverse, low-income families. Mother-child dyads were videotaped when children were aged 2;0 and 3;0. Video transcripts were analyzed for quantity and lexical diversity of maternal and child language.…
Descriptors: Low Income, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Mothers
Zamuner, Tania S.; Fais, Laurel; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2014
A central component of language development is word learning. One characterization of this process is that language learners discover objects and then look for word forms to associate with these objects (Mcnamara, 1984; Smith, 2000). Another possibility is that word forms themselves are also important, such that once learned, hearing a familiar…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition, Associative Learning
Dodd, Janet L.; Gorey, Megan – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2014
Augmentative and alternative communication based interventions support individuals with complex communication needs in becoming effective and efficient communicators. However, there is often a disconnect between language models, communication opportunities, and desired intervention outcomes in the intervention process. This article outlines a…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Intervention, Models, Delivery Systems
Alsford, Elizabeth; Ralephata, Andrew; Bolderson, Sarah; Curtin, Martina; Parish, Esther; Klaber, Victoria; Griffin, Sue; Nash, Lisa; Cullen, Rachel; Musoke, Brenda; Bhalla, Sangheeta; Walker, Lindsay; Duffer, Luisa; O'Sullivan, Sylvia; Knowland, Victoria; Cozens, Suzanne; McLaren, Lindsey; Camilleri, Bernard; Halil, Suzan; Furze, Rachael; Leung, Wai; O'Gorman, Ciara; Carver, Verity; Young, Dorothy; Pring, Tim – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Substantial evidence exists that social circumstances can affect children's language development. As a result many children in socially deprived areas start school with delayed language, which may persist and adversely affect their attainment. We assessed the language of children in seven reception classes in a London (UK) borough and followed the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Neumann, Sandra; Salm, Sandra; Rietz, Christian; Stenneken, Prisca – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Our purpose was to explore the validity and reliability of the German Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS-G; Thomas-Stonell, Oddson, Robertson, & Rosenbaum, 2010, 2012), which is an authorized adaptation of the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (Thomas-Stonell et al., 2010) tool, which measures…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Communication (Thought Transfer), Reliability, Validity
Puskás, Tünde – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the strategies monolingual teachers use to scaffold meaning and encourage and enhance verbal communication with emergent bilingual children in a Swedish mainstream preschool. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool group in which seven of twelve children spoke Swedish as their second, additional language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Download full textGuzman-Orth, Danielle; Lopez, Alexis A.; Tolentino, Florencia – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
Dual language learners (DLLs) and the various educational programs that serve them are increasing in number across the country. This framework lays out a conceptual approach for dual language assessment tasks designed to measure the language and literacy skills of young DLLs entering kindergarten in the United States. Although our examples focus…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking
Babino, Alexandra; Stewart, Mary Amanda – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This mixed-methodology study surveys 63 fifth graders in a one-way dual language school. Findings alarmingly indicate that although these students are native Spanish speakers in a school that delivers 50% of their instruction in Spanish, they prefer English both academically and socially. Subsequent interviews with 10 sample students of the larger…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Language Acquisition, Mixed Methods Research
Yuksel, Peri; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2017
Many ancestral languages (AL) are at imminent risk of extinction due to societal changes that pressure minority communities to assimilate with dominant cultures and forego usage of their AL. This study aimed to encourage caregiver-child dyads to converse in Lazuri, an endangered AL in Rize, Turkey. Dyads (N = 59; child age M = 30.7 months, range…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Nonverbal Communication
Brandes, Gilad; Ravid, Dorit – First Language, 2017
Prepositional phrases (PPs) are considered an important feature of mature written expression. However, little is known about the development of PPs during the school years. The study examined the use of PPs in 160 narrative and expository texts, written by Hebrew-users in grades 4, 7, and 11, and adults. PPs were identified, counted, and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition
Helland, Turid; Jones, Lise Øen; Helland, Wenche – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
This study assessed and compared results from evidence-based screening tools to be filled out by caregivers to identify preschool children at risk of language impairment (LI) and dyslexia. Three different tools were used: one assessing children's communicative abilities, one assessing risk of developmental dyslexia, and one assessing early…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Preschool Children, Language Skills, Correlation
Slavin, Robert E.; Chambers, Bette – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Evidence-based reform is transforming education at all levels, both in providing effective models for use in schools and in linking policy to effective practice on a broad scale. As early education moves from a concern with effects of preschool versus no preschool to focus on creating and evaluating effective preschool models capable of improving…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evidence Based Practice, Literacy, Economically Disadvantaged
