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Stephanie Choi Yin Wong; Kathy Kar-man Shum – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
This study investigates the similarities and differences between Hong Kong kindergarteners' shyness and social anxiety and their possible relations with social emotional adjustment and the development of receptive language abilities. Data were collected from three kindergartens, with 71 children (mean age = 52.6 months, SD = 7.28; 48% boys) and…
Descriptors: Shyness, Anxiety, Receptive Language, Preschool Children
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Jamie L. Metsala; Erin Sparks; Margaret D. David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills. Method: Eighty-eight kindergarten students…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten
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Elizabeth Spencer Kelley; Lindsey Peters-Sanders; Houston Sanders; Keri Madsen; Yagmur Seven; Howard Goldstein – Grantee Submission, 2025
Introduction: The current study examined the extent to which static and dynamic measures of vocabulary and word learning predicted response and identified poor responders to a vocabulary intervention. Methods: Participants were 46 preschool children in classrooms randomly assigned to complete the Story Friends intervention in two…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Predictor Variables