Using LENA to Investigate New Immigrant Child-Mother Communication and to Monitor Intervention Effect

Early language environment is vital to children's language development and school performance. Hart and Risley (1995) found that number of words that parents addressed to their children between 6-36 months of age varied greatly based on socio-economic status (SES). By age 3, this difference in...

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Published in:Journal of Education Research (Print) 2019-01 (297), p.54-74
Main Author: Tsai, Shu-Fei
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
Child language
Communication
Economic Status
Elementary school students
Environment
Immigrants
Language acquisition
Language Skills
Migrant Children
Parent-child relations
School Effectiveness
Vocabulary development
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Summary:Early language environment is vital to children's language development and school performance. Hart and Risley (1995) found that number of words that parents addressed to their children between 6-36 months of age varied greatly based on socio-economic status (SES). By age 3, this difference in the words that children heard from poor and professional families reach 30 million (Hart & Risley, 2003). Children who had parents talking more often had accelerated growth in vocabulary. This disparity predicted children's language skills and school success through the third grade (Walker, Greenwood, Hart, & Carta, 1994). While knowledge of the word gap has existed for two decades, to my knowledge there is no study investigating children's home language environment in Taiwan. This paper introduced an advent technology tool, Language Environment Analysis (LENA), which is used to record children's day-long home language environment. LENA is used to investigate the communication between a New Taiwanese child and his mothe
ISSN:1680-6360
DOI:10.3966/168063602019010297004