Language development of preschoolers can be positively stimulated and enhanced by
exposure to language of peers. Likewise, interactions of young learners with native …

Using a nationally representative sample of 3-and 4-year-old Spanish-speaking dual
language learners (DLLs) attending Head Start (N= 654), this study examined whether …

Aims: In this study, we aimed to examine whether five-year-old children with varying first-
language (L1) vocabulary skills benefitted differentially from second-language (L2) teacher …

The purpose of this study was to examine how classroom language contexts characterized
by peer language skills and proportions of dual language learners (DLL) influenced English …

This paper explores the idea that young children's emergent literacy practices can be tools
for mediating peer interaction, and that, therefore, literacy, even in its earliest stages, can …

Peer-mediated intervention, an approach emphasizing student-to-student interaction, is a
promising approach to support emergent bilingual children's development of positive peer …

This study investigates the extent to which internal and contextual factors moderate the
linguistic interdependence between receptive vocabulary skills in emergent bilingual …

Peer interactions are central to student experiences and present tremendous opportunities
for language learning and consequences for educational equity, yet these opportunities …

This study examined teachers'(n= 29) linguistic and social cues and the vocabulary skills of
Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their English-only peers (5-to 6-year-olds; n= 226) …

This study investigated the vocabulary development of children (N= 547) from linguistically
and socioeconomically diverse classrooms in Germany from age 3 in preschool to age 7 in …