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Direct linkMirza, Amna; Gottardo, Alexandra; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The present study examined the language and literacy skills and their relations to each other in multilingual children, who have a broad range of oral and written language proficiency in each language that they "know". Reading and vocabulary skills were tested in 50 Canadian children (ages 6-10 years) who were Urdu-English speakers,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Urdu, Semitic Languages
Download full textMcIntosh, Kent; Mathews, Susanna; Gietz, Carmen; MacKay, Leslie D.; Pelser, Janet; Mah, Inga; Rowe, Jacquie; Vogt, Carolyn; Edgecombe, Jim – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
This study explored the effectiveness of a speech and language intervention that was designed to be culturally responsive and adapted to provide explicit language instruction. Participants included all 774 kindergarten students from a mid-sized rural school district in British Columbia. Seventy-seven students screened as at risk received the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedPeterson, Carole; Jesso, Beulah; McCabe, Allyssa – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Investigated whether low-income mothers learned to interact with their preschoolers in ways that fostered narrative skills. Mothers of intervention children were encouraged to elicit questions, encourage longer narratives, and participate in narrative conversation. Assessment of children's pre- and post-intervention narrative and vocabulary skills…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
