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Khan, Kiren S.; Logan, Jessica; Justice, Laura M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Piasta, Shayne B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Narrative skill represents a higher-level linguistic skill that shows incremental development in the preschool years. During these years, there are considerable individual differences in this skill, with some children being highly skilled narrators (i.e., precocious) relative to peers of their age. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Narration, Language Skills, Age Differences
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Flores, Nelson; Saldívar García, Erica; Edgerton, Adam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Pushback against the perceived federal overreach into educational reform has led to renewed calls for a return to local control of schools. In contrast to this general trend, there has continued to be a strong national role for English learner (EL) accountability policies related to EL identification, monitoring and reclassification processes. In…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Accountability, Educational Policy, Attribution Theory
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Mahurin-Smith, Jamie; Mills, Monique T.; Chang, Rong – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: This study was designed to assess the utility of a tool for automated analysis of rare vocabulary use in the spoken narratives of a group of school-age children from low-income communities. Method: We evaluated personal and fictional narratives from 76 school-age children from low-income communities (M[subscript age] = 9;3…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Elementary School Students, Low Income Students, Oral Language