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Ganek, Hillary V.; Eriks-Brophy, Alice – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2018
The aim of this study was to present a protocol for the validation of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System's conversational turn count (CTC) for Vietnamese speakers. Ten families of children aged between 22 and 42 months, recruited near Ho Chi Minh City, participated in this project. Each child wore the LENA audio recorder for a full…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Native Speakers, Video Technology, Protocol Analysis
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Baxter, Christine M.; More, Cori; Spies, Tracy G.; Scott, Chyllis E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Effective peer interaction is fundamental to social development, cognitive development, and academic success. Young children's early exposure to and development of social competence begins in the home and is further developed upon entry into early childhood programmes. In the United States, where early childhood programmes serve increasingly…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Comparative Analysis
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Furnes, Bjarte; Samuelsson, Stefan – Dyslexia, 2010
In this study, predictors of reading and spelling difficulties among children learning more transparent (Norwegian/Swedish) and less transparent (English) orthographies were examined longitudinally from preschool through Grade 2 using parallel versions of tests. A series of logistic regression analysis indicated three main findings. First,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Grade 2
VanTol, Kathleen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to design and establish the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measures (CBMs) of vocabulary acquisition for use with preschool children. This study sought to establish the technical adequacy of two tools that can be used for measuring benchmarks of vocabulary acquisition for both native English speakers and for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Curriculum Based Assessment