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Download full textLe Roux, Elizabeth W.; Eccles, Renata; Abdoola, Shabnam; Graham, Marien; van der Linde, Jeannie – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: The use of mobile health (mHealth) technology is rapidly expanding in healthcare worldwide. mHealth tools may provide parents with access to resources essential for promoting language development. Aim: The current study aimed to determine how an mHealth parental resource influenced 42 preschool children's (4.0-5.11 months old) language…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Low Income Groups, Early Childhood Education
Direct linkCockcroft, Kate – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This study compared bilingual and monolingual school beginners on measures of simple and complex verbal working memory and receptive and expressive vocabulary. The aim was to determine whether the tests of working memory are fairer measures of language ability than the vocabulary tests for bilingual children when tested in their second language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Verbal Communication
Henning, Elizabeth; Dampier, Graham – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2012
This article is about an investigation into the English spoken language competence of 144 first graders in two urban ('township') schools in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. The study was conducted from an anthropological and a cognitive developmental perspective. In one school isiZulu and Sesotho are used mainly as medium of instruction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
