The effect of summer vacation on bilingual preschoolers' language development.
The purpose of the investigation was to examine the developmental trajectories of bilingual preschoolers' comprehension of Spanish and English and to determine whether a lengthy summer vacation impacted children's development during the preschool years. Participants included 83 bilingual children wh...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 22; no. 9; pp. 686 - 703 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105675793&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105675793 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02699206 B6X jtl: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics issn: 02699206 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2008 vid: 22 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 105675793 105675793 2010040979 10.1080/02699200802028033 NLM18608240 105675793 ppf: 686 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: The effect of summer vacation on bilingual preschoolers' language development. aug: au: Hammer CS Lawrence FR Miccio AW affil: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA sug: subj: Child Development Language Development Multilingualism In Infancy and Childhood Vacations Child, Preschool Confidence Intervals Descriptive Statistics English as a Second Language Funding Source Language Tests Models, Statistical Outcome Assessment Pennsylvania Predictive Research Project Head Start Pennsylvania Repeated Measures Socioeconomic Factors Support, Psychosocial Teaching Methods Human Child, Preschool: 2-5 years ab: The purpose of the investigation was to examine the developmental trajectories of bilingual preschoolers' comprehension of Spanish and English and to determine whether a lengthy summer vacation impacted children's development during the preschool years. Participants included 83 bilingual children who were followed over a 2-year period during which time children attended a federally funded preschool programme for children from low-income homes living in the US. Children were divided into two groups based on whether their scores on receptive language measures increased or decreased during their first year of Head Start. Results revealed that children whose scores increased experienced positive growth in their language comprehension in Spanish and English over the 2-year period, whereas children whose scores decreased during the first year continued to experience a negative developmental trajectory in their second year. Additionally, it was found that a lengthy summer vacation had a differential effect on children's development. Summer vacation had a negative effect on the developmental trajectories of children who experienced gains in their comprehension of English and Spanish and a positive impact on children whose scores declined during the school year. Clinical implications suggest that children may require differential support during the school year and summer vacation depending upon their developmental trajectories during the first year in preschool. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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