ERIC Number: EJ1239000
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 19
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Increasing Parental Knowledge through Workshops on Early Childhood Programs, Home Literacy, and Technology Use
Baker, Doris Luft; Ma, Hao; Gallegos, Elisa
Bilingual Research Journal, v42 n4 p491-509 2019
This experimental study explores the effects of workshops designed to increase directly the knowledge of Latinx parents, and indirectly, their children's vocabulary knowledge. Thirty-two Latinx mothers were randomly assigned to either attend six workshops in Spanish (n = 17), or to a wait-list control group (n = 15). Workshops included carefully designed strategies to scaffold the information based on parent English language proficiency, early childhood knowledge, and technology skills. Results indicate that mothers who attended the workshops significantly increased their early childhood knowledge, and children whose mothers attended the workshops significantly increased their Spanish expressive vocabulary. We did not find significant effects of the workshops on parental technology knowledge and literacy knowledge, although effect sizes were moderate. We discuss our findings in the context of building parental knowledge to increase their role construction and self-efficacy taking their funds of knowledge into account.
Descriptors: Parent Workshops, Knowledge Level, Family Literacy, Young Children, Technological Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Vocabulary Development, Latin Americans, Mothers, Role Perception, Self Efficacy, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Education, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Parent Attitudes, Urban Areas, Social Media, Parent Background, Computer Use
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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