Within English early childhood education, there is emphasis on improving speech and
language development as well as a drive for outdoor learning. This paper synthesises both …

This two-wave longitudinal study explored how Estonian children's language environment
relates to their language skills. The Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system's …

Children learn language by analyzing the speech they hear. The evidence for this assertion
consists of the many findings that differences among children in the nature of the speech …

Individual differences in young children's language acquisition reflect in part the variability in
the language-learning environment that they experience, both at home and in the …

Purpose This study was conducted in a large Midwestern metropolitan area to examine the
language environments at home and in center-based childcare for young children who are …

This study investigates differences in the language environments experienced by
multilingual and monolingual infants in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings …

The present study is based on longitudinal data from a German early childhood education
and care (ECEC) governmental initiative assessing children's grammatical and vocabulary …

This study aims to enhance our knowledge of the associations between the quality of the
language-learning environment in toddler childcare groups and children's vocabulary …

Speech and language delay occurs in approximately 6% of the child population, and
interventions to support this group of children focus on the child and/or the communicative …

Children need adequate language and early literacy skills at school entry to prepare them
for the transition to formal reading instruction. Unfortunately, children from low-income and …