Author(s): Della Porta SL; Sukmantari P; Howe N; Farhat F; Ross HS;

Children's sociocultural experiences in their day-to-day lives markedly play a key role in learning about the world. This study investigated parent-child teaching during early childhood as it naturally occurs in the home setting. Thirty-nine families' naturalistic interactions in the home setting were observed; 1033 teaching sequences were identif ...

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Author(s): Smolak E; Hendrickson K; Zesiger P; Poulin-Dubois D; Friend M;

Early vocabulary knowledge and speed of word processing are important foundational skills for the development of preschool and school-age language and cognition. However, the variance in outcomes accounted for by parent-reported receptive or expressive vocabulary is generally modest. Recent research suggests that directly assessed, decontextualized vocabu ...

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