Bilingual children's language abilities and early reading outcomes in Head Start and kindergarten.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Head Start children's receptive language development and their kindergarten reading outcomes. Method: Eighty-eight bilingual children who were eligible to attend Head Start for 2 years participated in the study. Growth cu...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 237 - 249 |
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| Formato: | CEU exam questions research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jul2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106183449&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106183449 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01611461 LSH jtl: Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools issn: 01611461 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2007 vid: 38 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association place: Rockville, Maryland artinfo: ui: 106183449 106183449 2009640863 10.1044/0161-1461(2007/025) NLM17625050 106183449 ppf: 237 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Bilingual children's language abilities and early reading outcomes in Head Start and kindergarten. aug: au: Hammer CS Lawrence FR Miccio AW affil: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park sug: subj: Language Development Evaluation Multilingualism In Infancy and Childhood Project Head Start Reading Evaluation Speech and Language Assessment In Infancy and Childhood Child, Preschool Confidence Intervals Correlational Studies Data Analysis, Computer Assisted Denver II Descriptive Statistics Education, Continuing (Credit) English as a Second Language Funding Source Hispanic Americans Language Tests Literacy Pennsylvania Structural Equation Modeling Time Factors Type I Error Urban Areas Vocabulary Human Child, Preschool: 2-5 years ab: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Head Start children's receptive language development and their kindergarten reading outcomes. Method: Eighty-eight bilingual children who were eligible to attend Head Start for 2 years participated in the study. Growth curve models were used to examine the relationship between children's language abilities during 2 years in Head Start and end-of- kindergarten reading outcomes. Results: The results revealed that children's English and Spanish receptive language abilities increased during Head Start, and children's early reading abilities in English were within the typical range of monolingual norms at the end of kindergarten. Children's early reading abilities in Spanish were nearly 1 SD below the test mean or lower. The results also showed that children's growth in their English and Spanish language abilities during Head Start predicted their early reading abilities in English and Spanish. Implications: The findings imply that preschool programs are needed that target children's growth in language and not their performance measured at a particular point in time. Also, the results demonstrate the importance of early and regular evaluation of bilingual children's development in both languages in order to monitor children's growth in their two languages. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: CEU exam questions research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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