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Intervention in the home literacy environment and kindergarten children’s vocabulary and phonological awareness
- Source :
- First Language. 37:433-452
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- Children develop linguistic competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Consequently, one way to support this development is by enhancing the home literacy environment (HLE) in which children live. In this study a non-intensive intervention procedure was developed to improve HLE and linguistic competencies of 125 German children (mean age at time 1 [t1; beginning of the study]: 5;5 years) in their last year of kindergarten. Parents were offered to participate in one evening meeting and in an individual dialogic reading session. HLE and children’s linguistic competencies were assessed before and twice after the intervention. Families in the complete intervention group did not differ from other families in any of the study variables at the beginning of the study. However, they significantly improved their HLE, and children in these families showed greater development in phonological awareness when compared with the other families. Results indicate that less intensive interventions can have long-lasting effects on HLE and children’s development.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
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05 social sciences
Psychological intervention
050301 education
Child development
Language and Linguistics
Vocabulary development
Literacy
Education
Developmental psychology
Phonological awareness
Intervention (counseling)
Family literacy
Cognitive development
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
sense organs
Psychology
0503 education
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17402344 and 01427237
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- First Language
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........62ced34a635a80a3b265933f7395e762