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Snow, Pamela – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2014
Oral language competence (skill in everyday talking and listening) is critical in the early years of school in two key respects: it underpins the transition to literacy in the early years, and is the means by which children form and maintain interpersonal relationships in the school setting. In this paper, the role of oral language competence with…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, Syntax, Speech Language Pathology
Iruka, Iheoma U.; Dotterer, Aryn M.; Pungello, Elizabeth P. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Grounded in the investment model and informed by the integrative theory of the study of minority children, this study used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data set, a nationally representative sample of young children, to investigate whether the association between socioeconomic status (family income and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
St. John, Pip; Vance, Maggie – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
Research indicates that a significant number of children enter primary school with insufficient vocabulary knowledge. This study investigates whether a small group daily word learning programme delivered by the class teacher can improve word learning in young children. Eighteen children, aged five to six years, with English as an additional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Program Effectiveness
Gridley, Nicole; Baker-Henningham, Helen; Hutchings, Judy – Child Care in Practice, 2016
Poor language skills can have a negative effect on a developing child if not identified early. Current strategies to identify families with children who may need additional support are limited, and may not detect child language problems before they become entrenched. The present study explores observed indices of parental language as a means of…
Descriptors: Observation, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language, Toddlers
Gibson, Todd A.; Oller, D. Kimbrough; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Ethington, Corinna A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Adults and children learning a second language show difficulty accessing expressive vocabulary that appears accessible receptively in their first language (L1). We call this discrepancy the receptive-expressive gap. Kindergarten Spanish (L1)-English (L2) sequential bilinguals were given standardized tests of receptive and expressive vocabulary in…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Expressive Language
Ohashi, J. Kaori; Mirenda, Pat; Marinova-Todd, Stefka; Hambly, Catherine; Fombonne, Eric; Szatmari, Peter; Bryson, Susan; Roberts, Wendy; Smith, Isabel; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Volden, Joanne; Waddell, Charlotte; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Georgiades, Stelios; Duku, Eric; Thompson, Ann – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare a group of recently diagnosed bilingual-exposed children with autism (n = 20) aged 24-2 months with a matched group of monolingual-exposed children with autism (n = 40). The groups were matched with regard to chronological age at the time of language assessment and nonverbal IQ score, then compared with…
Descriptors: Age, Autism, Young Children, Monolingualism
Terrett, Gill; White, Roxanne; Spreckley, Michele – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to assess changes in children's language skills and parenting stress following participation in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program (PCMGP). The intervention group consisted of 29 parents (age range 24 to 43 years, "M" = 33.5, SD = 4.1) and 30 children (18 females and 12 males) with ages ranging from 1 to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Crisis Intervention
Developing Preschool Deaf Children's Language and Literacy Learning from an Educational Media Series
Golos, Debbie B.; Moses, Annie M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
With the increase in research on multiliteracies comes greater interest in exploring multiple pathways of learning for deaf children. Educational media have been increasingly examined as a tool for facilitating the development of deaf children's language and literacy skills. The authors investigated whether preschool deaf children (N = 31)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Preschool Children, Literacy Education, Language Acquisition
Benson, Katie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which tri-weekly evidence-based vocabulary lessons implemented throughout the regular school day would increase kindergarten students' expressive and receptive vocabulary development, thus decreasing the vocabulary gap exhibited between low-income children and their more advantaged peers…
Descriptors: Poverty, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Experimental Groups
Maria Adelaida Restrepo; Gareth P. Morgan; Marilyn S. Thompson – Grantee Submission, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of a Spanish-English versus English-only vocabulary intervention for dual-language learners (DLLs) with language impairment compared to mathematics intervention groups and typically developing controls with no intervention. Further, in this study the authors also examined whether the…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingualism, Language Impairments
Maria Adelaida Restrepo; Gareth P. Morgan; Marilyn S. Thompson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of a Spanish-English versus English-only vocabulary intervention for dual-language learners (DLLs) with language impairment compared to mathematics intervention groups and typically developing controls with no intervention. Further, in this study the authors also examined whether the…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingualism, Language Impairments
Loakes, Deborah; Moses, Karin; Simpson, Jane; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This article reports on the development and piloting of a vocabulary recognition test designed for Indigenous Australian children. The research is both application oriented and development oriented. The aims of the article are to determine how well the test is used as a test instrument and the extent to which children recognize vocabulary items in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Word Recognition
Galeote, Miguel; Sebastian, Eugenia; Checa, Elena; Rey, Rocio; Soto, Pilar – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2011
Background: Our main purpose was to compare the lexical development of Spanish children with Down syndrome (DS) and children with typical development (TD) to investigate the relationship between cognitive and vocabulary development in comprehension and oral and gestural production. Method: Participants were 186 children with DS and 186 children…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication
McLeod, Angela N.; McDade, Hiram L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2011
This investigation examined the ability of 44 preschool children to acquire novel words embedded in storybook contexts. Previous investigations of word learning have typically consisted of novel words for which synonyms exist. It is argued that the acquisition of unfamiliar words that refer to existing concepts that already have labels is not…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Incidental Learning, Preschool Children
Sterling, A.; Abbeduto, L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
Background: Girls with fragile X syndrome (FXS) have a wide range of cognitive and language abilities. The range of language outcomes experienced by girls with FXS, however, has been relatively unexplored. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine receptive and expressive language, with a focus on vocabulary and syntax, in a group of…
Descriptors: Females, Syntax, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition