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Home Language, School Language and Children's Literacy Attainments: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Nag, Sonali; Vagh, Shaher Banu; Dulay, Katrina May; Snowling, Margaret J. – Review of Education, 2019
The general consensus in the field is that when the home language is different from the language of instruction in school then children's literacy attainments could slow down. In this 26-year review of the literature on children's literacy attainments in low- to middle-income countries, 40 correlational, ethnographic and intervention studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Family Environment, Educational Environment
The Relationship between Parents' Literacy Skills and Their Preschool Children's Emergent Literacy Skills
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Taylor, Nicole A.; Greenberg, Daphne; Terry, Nicole Patton – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
The aim of the present study was to investigate the correlational and predictive relationships between parents with low literacy skills (n = 96) and their 3-5 year old children's emergent literacy skills (n = 96). In the study parents were assessed on measures of reading comprehension, decoding, fluency, oral vocabulary, and word identification,…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy, Preschool Children