Children need rich language learning experiences in school to build language and reading
skills. Research suggests that various effective ways to support teacher provision of these …

Teacher knowledge is a critical factor in student success. In the Classroom Promotion of Oral
Language cluster randomized controlled trial, we aimed to determine whether a teacher …

Background Children and adolescents with a history of developmental language disorder
are at elevated risk of experiencing internalising and externalising symptoms. The existing …

Teacher classroom instructional practice can be a powerful influence on student learning.
The Classroom Promotion of Oral Language randomized controlled trial tested whether …

Background Women and families experiencing socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity
are the least likely to access health care but most likely to benefit. For health services to …

Teachers in the early years of primary school play an important role in supporting students'
oral language skills; however, there is evidence to suggest many Australian teachers are not …

Text generation—the mental translation of ideas into language at word, sentence, and
discourse levels—involves oral language abilities. However, oral language skills are rarely …

Background: Language ability is associated with socio-economic factors. Here we
investigate the long-term association between socio-economic disadvantage and the …

Background: Well-developed vocabulary skills are crucial for academic success. Students
having the language of instruction as a second language and students from lower …

This chapter considers the proximal and distal skills which impact on children's developing
writing competencies. We examine three dimensions: text-based factors, child-based factors …