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van der Sande, Lisa; Dobber, Marjolein; van Schaik, Johanna E.; van Steensel, Roel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The goals of the present study were to compare the reliability and convergent validity of two reading attitude measures for beginning readers and to get more insight into children's reading attitude around the transition to formal reading instruction. 468 children in kindergarten and Grade 1 completed a more traditional questionnaire based on…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Krijnen, Eke; van Steensel, Roel; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Jongerling, Joran; Severiens, Sabine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Based on the Home Literacy Model, this study explored a refined model of home literacy activities and their relations with children's emergent literacy skills in a linguistic and socio-economic diverse sample of 214 Dutch kindergartners (mean age 4 years and 7 months, 46% girls and 29% monolingual speakers of Dutch). The study examined a typology…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Learning Activities
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Hedi Kwakkel; Mienke Droop; Ludo Verhoeven; Eliane Segers – Educational Psychology, 2023
This study examined the unique contribution of Home Literacy Environment (HLE), Classroom Literacy Environment (CLE), and parent and teacher expectations to the development of Dutch (L1) and English (L2) vocabulary in children in Dutch-English bilingual primary education. The children (n = 106) were tested on vocabulary in both languages in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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de la Rie, Sanneke; van Steensel, Roel; van Gelderen, Amos; Severiens, Sabine – Education Sciences, 2021
It is hypothesized that variability found in the effects of family literacy programs results from differences in implementation by parents. In this study, the implementation and effects of a Dutch program were examined in a sample of 207 kindergarteners (mean age at pre-test: 64 months). No main intervention effects on children's literacy…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Family Programs, Kindergarten
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Vriens-van Hoogdalem, Anne-Greth; de Haan, Dorian M. P.; Boom, Jan – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Language and metacommunication are assumed to be important for accomplishing a high level of cooperation in social play. Research to date, however, does not address the relationship of language ability and metacommunication to the complexity of cooperation. This study investigated this relationship by observing 24 four- and five-year-old…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Communication Skills, Play, Verbal Communication
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Segers, Eliane; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
The home numeracy environment (i.e., parents' numeracy expectations and activities), is related to early numeracy in young children. As recent studies have shown that both cognitive and linguistic factors play an important role in predicting numeracy development, it may be assumed that rather than the home "numeracy" environment, the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Expectation, Mathematics Achievement, Numeracy