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Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux; Chantal Desmarais; Caroline Bouchard; Breanne Esau; Audette Sylvestre – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study aimed to describe inferential comprehension abilities of neglected French-speaking preschool children from 42 to 66 months of age in comparison to non-neglected peers, to examine the association with receptive vocabulary, and to determine whether rates of change in inferential abilities over time…
Descriptors: French, Inferences, Comprehension, Child Neglect
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Elena Gandolfi; Giovanna Diotallevi; Paola Viterbori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Inhibition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Rebecca E. Winter; Heidrun Stoeger; Sebastian P. Suggate – First Language, 2024
A growing body of research suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) are associated with language development. In this study, we examined 76 children aged 3-6 years assessing the link between language and FMS. Specific measures included receptive and expressive vocabulary, oral narrative skills, and various fine motor tasks. Hierarchical linear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education
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Nesrin Isikoglu; Müzeyyen Güzen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study aims to investigate the impact of digital storytelling activities on children's language skills, specifically focusing on expressive, receptive, and narrative abilities, as well as their utilization of technological elements in their stories. The study involved 18 children who were enrolled in a public kindergarten classroom, and it…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Yang Dong; Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow; Jianhong Mo; Xuecong Miao; Hao-Yuan Zheng – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Dialogic reading (DR) is an effective shared reading technique based on the prompts-evaluate-expand-repeat (PEER) sequence, which fosters children's language development. This study examines the effects of its elements by comparing shared reading with prompts with minimal feedback (PMF) and PEER. Methods: This study included 364…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Prompting, Repetition, Language Acquisition
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Caroline Gaudreau; Amanda Delgado; Rachel Confair-Jones; Sydney Flambaum; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; K. Lee Raby; Mary Dozier; Roberta Michnick Golinkoff – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Research suggests foster children are at risk for poor language skills. One intervention, attachment and biobehavioral catch-up (ABC), was shown to successfully improve not only young foster children's attachment to their parents, but also their receptive vocabulary skills (Bernard et al., 2017; Raby et al., 2019). Given that language acquisition…
Descriptors: Foster Care, At Risk Persons, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
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Hsin-Chieh Chen – Research in Pedagogy, 2024
Individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often face difficulties in social communication and language skills, encompassing comprehension and production in both their first and second languages. English as a second language has been one of the most common communication tools and a school subject for decades in Asia; therefore, mastering English…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication Skills, Language Skills, Receptive Language
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Golnoosh Golmohammadi; Farhad Sakhai; Faezeh Asadollahpour; Kiana Nouhi; Naemeh Jafari; Zahra Baghejari – First Language, 2024
This study aimed to adapt and validate the Word Complexity Measure (WCM) for Persian-speaking toddlers. The WCM is a tool for assessing phonological complexity, originally proposed by Stoel-Gammon. The study was conducted in two phases: (1) adapting the WCM parameters to the Persian language and (2) conducting a validation study with 60…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Measures (Individuals), Indo European Languages, Pictorial Stimuli
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Marjolein Muès; Sarah Schaubroeck; Ellen Demurie; Herbert Roeyers – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background &aims: Language abilities of autistic children and children at elevated likelihood for autism (EL-siblings) are highly heterogeneous, and many of them develop language deficits. It is as of yet unclear why language abilities of autistic children and EL-siblings vary, although an interaction of multiple influential factors is likely…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Siblings
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Beth Ann O'Brien; Artika Arshad; Siew Chin Ng – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Accumulating evidence shows that the home literacy environment (HLE) has a potent and early influence on children's language and literacy development. However, there is a more limited understanding of HLE and its contribution to children's outcomes for simultaneous bilingual children exposed to two languages at home, particularly in…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Bilingualism, Language Skills, Literacy
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Hambalee Jehma; Apipa Prachyapruit; Pateep Methakunavudhi – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
This research and development study aimed to develop the prototype of virtual learning implemented in flipped classrooms and evaluate its effectiveness as a tool for developing Thai undergraduates' English receptive skills. To assess if the designed prototype is effective, a quasi-experimental method was employed. The experimental sample group…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Khalid AlMaqrashi; Alia Al-Oweidi – International Education Studies, 2024
The study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of the promoting emergence of advanced knowledge programs in developing language skills among a sample of children with an autism spectrum disorder in Oman. The study adopted the pre-experimental approach of the single experimental group with two pre- and post-measurements. 10 children with autism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Skills, Young Children
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Haluk O. Öngören; Anna Volodina – Reading Psychology, 2024
Academic language and its associations with school success have been established in many prior studies. However, the scholarship lacks research on the mechanisms that constitute these relations. This study investigates the mediating role of motivational-­affective variables, specifically reading self-concept and reading enjoyment, in relations…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Comprehension, Self Concept, Reading Attitudes
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Jacob I. Feldman; Varsha Garla; Kacie Dunham; Jennifer E. Markfeld; Sarah M. Bowman; Alexandra J. Golden; Claire Daly; Sophia Kaiser; Nisha Mailapur; Sweeya Raj; Pooja Santapuram; Evan Suzman; Ashley E. Augustine; Aine Muhumuza; Carissa J. Cascio; Kathryn L. Williams; Anne V. Kirby; Bahar Keceli-Kaysili; Tiffany G. Woynaroski – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Early differences in sensory responsiveness may contribute to difficulties with communication among autistic children; however, this theory has not been longitudinally assessed in infants at increased familial versus general population-level likelihood for autism (Sibs-autism vs. Sibs-NA) using a comprehensive battery of sensory responsiveness and…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sensory Experience, Siblings
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Jacqueline A. Towson; Marisa Macy; Diana L. Abarca; Kara Myers; Erin FitzPatrick – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
As an initial step of a larger grant-funded project, this pilot study examined how providing preschool teachers in low socio-economic urban areas with a traditional professional development workshop and subsequent coaching on dialogic reading (DR) strategies affected their storybook reading. Effects on children's receptive and expressive language…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Dialogs (Language), Faculty Development, Intervention
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