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The Role of Home and Classroom Literacy Environment and Expectations in Early Vocabulary Development in Bilingual Primary Education
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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)
Attitudes towards Reading amongst Kindergarten and Grade 1 Children
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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
Competence, Problem Behavior, and the Effects of Having No Friends, Aggressive Friends, or Nonaggressive Friends: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study
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Palmen, Hanneke; Vermande, Marjolijn M.; Dekovic, Maja; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study examined the longitudinal relations between competence (academic achievement and social preference) and problem behavior (loneliness and aggression) in 741 elementary school boys and girls in the Netherlands (Grades 1-5). Also, we examined the moderation effects of having no friends, aggressive friends, or nonaggressive friends on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Adjustment (to Environment), Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Differences in First Graders' School Adjustment: The Role of Classroom Characteristics and Social Structure of the Group.
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van den Oord, Edwin J. C. G.; Van Rossem, Ronan – Journal of School Psychology, 2002
Examined differences among classes in academic and psychosocial aspects of school adjustment. Multilevel analyses showed that 83.5% of the variance was at the child level, 10.3% at the class level, and 6.2% at the school level. Social structure indices yielded significant correlation indicators of social interaction and intellectual competence and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Classroom Roles and School Adjustment
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Van Rossem, Ronan; Vermande, Marjolijn M. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2004
The peer group is an important developmental context for children. In this paper we present a method to operationalize a child's integration into the classroom by their informal social classroom roles, which we obtained using a blockmodel analysis based on role equivalence. This method differs in several respects from the common socio-metric…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Interpersonal Attraction, Friendship, Student Adjustment