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ERIC Number: ED613484
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0885-2006
EISSN: N/A
Exploring the Mechanism through Which Peer Effects Operate in Preschool Classrooms to Influence Language Growth
Chen, Jing; Justice, Laura M.; Tambyraja, Sherine R.; Sawher, Brook
Grantee Submission, Early Childhood Research Quarterly v53 p1-10 2020
Peer-effects research finds that preschool children's language growth is associated with classmates' skills and that children with disabilities especially benefit from classmates with higher skills. The current study estimates the amount of "peer language resources" individual children access through their classroom-based peer social interactions, which represents an aggregation of peers' language skills weighted by teacher-perceived interaction intensities between dyads. Participants were 448 children (57% boys, 40% with disabilities, M[subscript age]= 52.29 months) from 58 inclusive preschool classrooms. Results showed a significant variation of peer language resources within classrooms and indicated that children with disabilities had significantly fewer peer language resources, although peer language resources showed a stronger association with their language growth than that of typically developing children.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Center for Special Education Research (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Ohio; Pennsylvania
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324A130066