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Assessing Language and Communication Skills of Young Children with Complex Communication Needs
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Tiantian Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: Accurate and meaningful assessment of language and communication skills to monitor child progress is the cornerstone to appropriate intervention for children with complex communication needs (CCN; Brady et al., 2016; Rowland et al., 2012). Despite this need, there is a lack of high quality and validated measurement of young children…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Language Skills, Communication Skills, Young Children
Building Language and Literacy Foundations for L2 Learners in West Africa with Oral Vocabulary Instruction and Shared Reading of Predictable and Non-Predictable Stories in Picture Books
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Smith, Kimberly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the effects of shared reading on oral vocabulary development with 42 second language (L2) learners in Dakar, Senegal. Participants, ranging from four to six years old, were taught French target words using predictable books, non-predicable books, and control activities of the typical local instructional practice of using…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Relationship between Teacher Language Use in Enhanced Milieu Teaching Sessions and Child Language Outcomes
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McLeod, Jennifer Ragan Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research indicates that linguistic input from teachers may affect child vocabulary development in preschool and beyond (Dickinson & Tabors, 2001). Currently, there is little research on the relationship between specific teacher language use in individual interactions on child language outcomes for preschool children at risk for academic delays.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children