TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's vocabulary growth in english and spanish across early development and associations with school readiness skills
AU - Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S.
AU - Song, Lulu
AU - Luo, Rufan
AU - Kuchirko, Yana
AU - Kahana-Kalman, Ronit
AU - Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
AU - Raufman, Julia
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge funding from NSF BCS grant #021859 and NSF IRADS grant #0721383.
PY - 2014/2/17
Y1 - 2014/2/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1080/87565641.2013.827198
DO - 10.1080/87565641.2013.827198
M3 - Article
C2 - 24571927
AN - SCOPUS:84897611338
SN - 8756-5641
VL - 39
SP - 69
EP - 87
JO - Developmental Neuropsychology
JF - Developmental Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -