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Direct linkKnight-McKenna, Mary; Hollingsworth, Heidi L.; Esposito, Judy – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Children who receive copious amounts of language stimulation from caring adults are likely to develop strong language skills, whereas children who receive limited language stimulation may experience delays. Little is known about the language stimulation strategies that families prefer to use. This mixed-methods study investigated families'…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Low Income Groups
Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
A Critical Discourse Analysis was used to examine the parents' social practice during shared storybook reading with young children (birth to eight-years-old). The methodology involved two phases: (1) educational databases were searched and (2) a template was developed and used to code the programmes' components and studies' research design.…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Childrens Literature, Young Children, Parents
Manz, Patricia H.; Eisenberg, Rachel; Gernhart, Amanda; Faison, Jacqueline; Laracy, Seth; Ridgard, Tamique; Pinho, Trevor – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop a book sharing intervention to support the language development of infants and toddlers from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Low-income parents were engaged in a collaborative inquiry to develop "Little Talks." Parents were assigned to three small groups that independently…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers
Grifenhagen, Jill F.; Barnes, Erica M.; Collins, Molly F.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Decades of research have identified features of classrooms and teachers' talk that are associated with children's language growth. Unfortunately, much of this work has not yet translated to widespread practice in early childhood classrooms. Given the important contributions that early language development makes to later academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Preschool Education, Educational Research
Boomstra, Nienke; van Dijk, Marijn; Jorna, René; van Geert, Paul – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Parent reading beliefs are the ideas that parents have concerning the influence of reading and their own efficacy as language teachers to their children. In the intervention More Languages, More Opportunities, one of the goals is to positively influence the parental reading beliefs. The participants were 16 mother-child couples from bilingual…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Reading Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Saracho, Olivia N.; Spodek, Bernard – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Family literacy studies have shown that the role of parental storybook reading has an impact on children's success in school-based literacy instruction. Storybook reading is when adults read an appropriate text to their children. This review describes studies in which parents and children engage in storybook reading. It specifically reports…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy
