Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: A comparison of language-minority and monolingual-english children

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1943-1957

  Lonigan, Christopher J ^a,b   Farver, JoAnn M ^c   Nakamoto, Jonathan ^c,d   Eppe, Stefanie ^c,e  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Los Alamitos Medical Center   (United States)

^e National Youth Employment Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy; English language learners; Language minority; Preschool

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84884925993     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031408     Document Type: Article

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