ERIC Number: EJ1036387
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0009
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Predicting Ethnic Minority Children's Vocabulary from Socioeconomic Status, Maternal Language and Home Reading Input: Different Pathways for Host and Ethnic Language
Prevoo, Mariëlle J. L.; Malda, Maike; Mesman, Judi; Emmen, Rosanneke A. G.; Yeniad, Nihal; Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus; Linting, Mariëlle
Journal of Child Language, v41 n5 p963-984 Sep 2014
When bilingual children enter formal reading education, host language proficiency becomes increasingly important. This study investigated the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), maternal language use, reading input, and vocabulary in a sample of 111 six-year-old children of first- and second-generation Turkish immigrant parents in the Netherlands. Mothers reported on their language use with the child, frequency of reading by both parents, and availability of children's books in the ethnic and the host language. Children's Dutch and Turkish vocabulary were tested during a home visit. SES was related to maternal language use and to host language reading input. Reading input mediated the relation between SES and host language vocabulary and between maternal language use and host language vocabulary, whereas only maternal language use was related to ethnic language vocabulary. During transition to formal reading education, one should be aware that children from low-SES families receive less host language reading input.
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Language Usage, Prediction, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Correlation, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Turkish, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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