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EJ454910 PS519966

Title: Accelerating Language Development through Picture Book Reading: A Systematic Extension to Mexican Day Care.
Author(s):: Valdez-Menchaca, Marta C.; Whitehurst, Grover J.
Source: Developmental Psychology, v28 n6 p1106-14 Nov 1992
Publication Date: 1992
ISSN: 0012-1649
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1993

Teachers encouraged children in an intervention group of Mexican two year olds to talk about picture books and provided feedback for children's language use. A control group received arts and crafts instruction. Differences favoring the intervention group were found on standardized language posttests and some measures of language production. (BC)

Descriptors: Childrens Literature; Day Care; Disadvantaged; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Picture Books; Reading Instruction; Teacher Student Relationship; Young Children
Identifiers: *Dialogic Reading; Mexico (Tepic)

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