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Direct linkLaurent Gabriel Ndijuye; Janet Beatus – Education 3-13, 2024
Recently most sub-Saharan countries have successfully broadened access to basic education. However, empirical and educational reports from this region have consistently documented children not acquiring the foundational literacy skills. This study examined the differences in the level of literacy acquisition between pupils from urban and rural…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Family Environment
Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Liyan Yu; Jing Huang; Phil Duo Liu; Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung; Dan Lin; Him Cheung; Xiuhong Tong – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: This study examined how parenting styles influence children's language skills and reading comprehension. Materials and Methods: Six hundred and eighty-five Chinese-speaking third graders (M[subscript age] = 9.23 years, SD = 0.66; 341 girls) were randomly recruited from eight primary schools. We measured students' primary…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
Download full textRizka Razimona; Sary Silvhiany; Machdalena Vianty – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
Teaching English to first-grade elementary school children presents its own challenges for teachers. This is because children at this age have characteristics such as having a short attention span, enjoying playing, and learning more effectively when they are having fun. On the other hand, children in this group are still learning to read and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Singing
Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Influences, Parent Role, Decision Making
Su-Zhen Zhang; Tomohiro Inoue; George K. Georgiou – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
We examined the relations between mothers' reading skills, home literacy environment (HLE), and children's emergent literacy skills and word reading and whether their relations vary across urban and rural contexts in China. Four hundred third-year kindergarten Chinese children (M[subscript age] = 74.50 ± 3.77 months) were recruited from Jining (N…
Descriptors: Mothers, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics, Family Environment
Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye; Ntide Dadi – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
This study examined the mediating roles of home learning environments and SES on early learning attainments of naturalised refugees in Tanzania using concurrent embedded mixed design. Data were collected by EGRA and EGMA, questionnaire and interviews. The sample were 400 grade one and grade two children (aged 70-86 months), 120 parents, eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Refugees
Renée Claes; Jana Laga; Katrijn Denies; Nele Bleukx; Jonas Dockx; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Providing a rich home literacy environment (HLE) is considered to contribute to the development of students' reading comprehension. However, less research attention has been given to the underlying mechanisms that influence this relationship, including potential mediating characteristics. The present study aims to assess whether…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
Scott, Zeni; Uthappa, Diya M.; Mann, Tara K.; Kim, Hwasoon; Brookhart, M. A.; Edwards, Laura; Rak, Zsolt; Benjamin, Daniel K.; Zimmerman, Kanecia O.; the ABC Science Collaborative – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Test-to-stay (TTS) is a strategy to limit school exclusion following an exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We evaluated the use of TTS within universally masked kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) school settings following household SARS-CoV-2 exposure. Methods: Three hundred twenty-two…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Psyridou, Maria; Torppa, Minna; Tolvanen, Asko; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Koponen, Tuire – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The aim of the present study was to examine the kinds of developmental profiles of arithmetic fluency skills that can be identified across Grades 1-9 (ages 7-16) in a large Finnish sample (n = 2,518). The study also examined whether membership in the developmental profiles could be predicted using a comprehensive set of kindergarten-age factors,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students
Ana-Simona Ilie; Paula Maria Buda; Daniela Pahome – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2023
In this study, we aim to analyze the effects of discovery-based learning through film viewing on students' knowledge about a specific animal species and its habitat. The following hypothesis is tested: students' knowledge about animals and their environment is greater as a result of discovering information through watching videos. The study…
Descriptors: Films, Discovery Learning, Video Technology, Learning Processes
Pei, Jacqueline; Reid-Westoby, Caroline; Siddiqua, Ayesha; Elshamy, Yomna; Rorem, Devyn; Bennett, Teresa; Birken, Catherine; Coplan, Rob; Duku, Eric; Ferro, Mark A.; Forer, Barry; Georgiades, Stelios; Gorter, Jan Willem; Guhn, Martin; Maguire, Jonathon; Manson, Heather; Santos, Rob; Brownell, Marni; Janus, Magdalena – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
The prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) may be underestimated as it can be difficult to diagnose in early childhood possibly reflecting unique developmental trajectories relative to other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDDs). Using data collected via the Early Development Instrument (EDI) between 2010 and 2015, we examined the…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Kindergarten, Young Children, Incidence
Kelly, Mandy Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background: This paper poses to discuss and examine the concern of unmonitored and excessive internet use by school-age children, ages eight years to 11 years old, along with the importance of employing a Family Media Use Plan, which is recommended by the American Family of Pediatrics (AAP). This issue, although not often studied, is a common…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Internet, Computer Use, Incidence
Cekiso, Madoda; Rabelemane, Tsielo; Jadezweni, Jay; Mandende, Itani P.; Dieperink, Marius – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Rural learners face severe reading challenges that are unique to their environment. The challenges include parents' low level of education, little or no parental support, lack of reading material, and parents' low socio-economic status. It is therefore important that rural education research highlights these challenges in order to help…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Rural Schools, Reading Skills
Jessica Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Families play an essential role in their children's academic, social, and emotional development. Many families want to support their children's learning but are unsure of how to do so. It is an important task of schools to find ways to engage students' families and help them support their children's learning at home. This study explored the…
Descriptors: Family Role, Workshops, Program Effectiveness, Virtual Classrooms
