The home language environment and early language ability in rural Southwestern China [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Using premier Language Environment Analysis technology to measure and analyze the home language environment, this observational study aims to describe the home language environment and child language ability, drawing on empirical data from 77 households ...
Xinwu Zhang +10 more
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Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The 25 million Australians today are identified with more than 300 ancestries. People’s home language use and shift patterns had demonstrated great variations as more immigrants from Asia-Pacific regions entered Australia. The ethnolinguistic composition
Lubei Zhang, Linda Tsung, Xian Qi
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The home language environment in rural China: variations across family characteristics [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background A rich language environment is an important element of a nurturing home environment. Despite their proven importance, vocabulary and conversation have been shown to vary widely across households—even within the same socio-economic class.
Yue Ma +7 more
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Variations in the Home Language Environment and Early Language Development in Rural China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The home language environment is critical to early language development and subsequent skills. However, few studies have quantitatively measured the home language environment in low-income, developing settings.
Ma Y +11 more
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Parental perceptions of bilingualism and home language vocabulary: Young bilingual children from low-income immigrant Mexican American and Chinese American families [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Dual language learners (DLLs), especially those from immigrant families in the United States, risk losing their home language as they gradually shift to speaking English as they grow up.
Emily Mak +5 more
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Influences of the Home Language and Literacy Environment on Spanish and English Vocabulary Growth among Dual Language Learners. [PDF]
Early Child Res Q, 2021 Little is known regarding the extent to which aspects of the home language and literacy environment (HLE) promote growth in language skills among dual language learners (DLLs). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate which aspects of the HLE
Goodrich JM +4 more
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Differential Effects of the Home Language and Literacy Environment on Child Language and Theory of Mind and Their Relation to Socioeconomic Background. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 In this study, we examined differential effects of facets of the home language and literacy environment that are known to be relevant to either language development (i.e., quantity and quality of language and literacy stimulation at home) or theory of ...
Ebert S, Lehrl S, Weinert S.
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Home language maintenance in bilingual children with normal hearing and with hearing loss who use cochlear implants. [PDF]
Clin Linguist Phon, 2022 We investigated home language (Spanish) maintenance in Spanish- and English-speaking bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their peers with hearing loss (HL) who used cochlear implants (CIs) at two time points about 7 months apart.
Bunta F, Castilla-Earls A.
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Parental Beliefs and Knowledge, Children's Home Language Experiences, and School Readiness: The Dual Language Perspective. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Parental beliefs and knowledge about child development affect how they construct children’s home learning experiences, which in turn impact children’s developmental outcomes.
Luo R +3 more
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Home Language Activities and Expressive Vocabulary of Toddlers from Low-SES Monolingual Families and Bilingual Immigrant Families. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Children from low-SES (socioeconomic status) and minority language immigrant families are at risk of vocabulary difficulties due to the less varied and complex language in the home environment.
Florit E +3 more
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