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Miller, Elizabeth B.; Farkas, George; Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Duncan, Greg J. – Child Development, 2014
Data from the Head Start Impact Study (N = 3,185, age = 3-4 years) were used to determine whether 1 year of Head Start differentially benefited children from homes with high, middle, and low levels of parental preacademic stimulation on three academic outcome domains--early math, early literacy, and receptive vocabulary. Results from residualized…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children
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Sénéchal, Monique; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Child Development, 2014
One hundred and ten English-speaking children schooled in French were followed from kindergarten to Grade 2 (M[subscript age]: T1 = 5;6, T2 = 6;4, T3 = 6;11, T4 = 7;11). The findings provided strong support for the Home Literacy Model (Sénéchal, M., 2002) because in this sample the home language was independent of the language of instruction. The…
Descriptors: English, French, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Pham, Giang; Kohnert, Kathryn – Child Development, 2014
This longitudinal study modeled lexical development among children who spoke Vietnamese as a first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2). Participants (n = 33, initial mean age of 7.3 years) completed a total of eight tasks (four in each language) that measured vocabulary knowledge and lexical processing at four yearly time points.…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Acquisition, Vietnamese, English (Second Language)