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Mendoza, Manuel; Beltran-Navarro, Beatriz; Matute, Esmeralda; Rosselli, Monica – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to determine the effects of age, sex, and maternal education of monolingual Spanish-speaking preschoolers on both macrostructural (oral narrative quality) and microstructural measures (number of different words, communication units, mean length of utterance in both words and morphemes, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Parent Background, Mothers
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Reese, Leslie; Arauz, Rebeca Mejia; Bazan, Antonio Ray – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Mol, Suzanne E.; Bus, Adriana G.; de Jong, Maria T. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This meta-analysis examines to what extent interactive storybook reading stimulates two pillars of learning to read: vocabulary and print knowledge. The authors quantitatively reviewed 31 (quasi) experiments (n = 2,049 children) in which educators were trained to encourage children to be actively involved before, during, and after joint book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Early Reading