Peer Effects in Preschool Classrooms: Is Children's Language Growth Associated With Their Classmates' Skills?

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1768-1777

  Justice, Laura M ^a   Petscher, Yaacov ^b   Schatschneider, Christopher ^b   Mashburn, Andrew ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NURSERY SCHOOL; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PEER GROUP; SCHOOLS, NURSERY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 81355124352     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01665.x     Document Type: Article

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