Children's Vocabulary Growth in English and Spanish Across Early Development and Associations With School Readiness Skills

In line with evidence that variation in children's vocabulary size facilitates learning, we asked whether growth in Mexican and Dominican children's expressive vocabularies in English and/or Spanish would predict later cognitive skills. Children and mothers were video-recorded sharing word...

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Published inDevelopmental neuropsychology Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 69 - 87
Main Authors Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S., Song, Lulu, Luo, Rufan, Kuchirko, Yana, Kahana-Kalman, Ronit, Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Raufman, Julia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Psychology Press 17.02.2014
Subjects
Child
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Cognition - physiology
Dominican Republic
Early Intervention (Education)
English language
Female
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Infant
Language
Language Development
Literacy
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mexico
Mothers
Neuropsychology
Parent-Child Relations
Social Environment
Spanish language
United States
Verbal Behavior - physiology
Verbal Learning - physiology
Vocabularies & taxonomies
Vocabulary
Dominican Republic
United States
Mexico
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Summary:In line with evidence that variation in children's vocabulary size facilitates learning, we asked whether growth in Mexican and Dominican children's expressive vocabularies in English and/or Spanish would predict later cognitive skills. Children and mothers were video-recorded sharing wordless books at 2, 3, 4, and 5 years, and children were assessed on language, literacy, and math skills at 5 years. Growth in children's English and Spanish vocabularies, based on transcriptions of booksharing interactions, predicted specific cognitive skills and was associated with changes to mothers' language use across time. Mothers' years in the United States predicted children's English vocabulary growth.
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ISSN:8756-5641
1532-6942
DOI:10.1080/87565641.2013.827198