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Direct linkBarnes, Erica M.; Grifenhagen, Jill F.; Dickinson, David K. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
In this study we sought to identify profiles of talk during Head Start preschool mealtime conversations involving teachers and students. Videos of 44 Head Start classrooms' lunch interactions were analyzed for the ratio of teacher-child talk and amount of academic vocabulary, and then coded for instances of academic/food, social/personal, and…
Descriptors: Food, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Teachers
Hemsley, Gayle; Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study investigated cross-linguistic influence in acquisition of a second lexicon, evaluating Samoan-English sequentially bilingual children (initial mean age 4 ; 9) during their first 18 months of school. Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary tasks evaluated acquisition of four word types: cognates, matched nouns, phrasal nouns and holonyms.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Spere, Katherine A.; Evans, Mary Ann; Hendry, Carol-Anne; Mansell, Jubilea – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Nineteen shy, twenty-three middle and twenty-five non-shy junior kindergarten children were assessed at school by an unfamiliar examiner, and at home where their parents administered a parallel form of the expressive and receptive vocabulary tests given at school. A speech sample between the child and parent was also collected at home. Shy…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Skills, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
