It is well known that children's language development lays the foundation for their literacy
development, though it is difficult for preschool teachers alone to consistently engage in the …

The acquisition of emergent literacy for young children who are ethnic-minority, low-income
or non-English speaking is threatened by myriad social risks. Given the need for empirically …

Study of family language policy unites research in child language acquisition and language
policy to better understand how parents' language decisions, practices and beliefs influence …

In this article, parental role construction is framed from a sociocultural perspective. Applying
this perspective foregrounds the need for researchers and practitioners to gain an insider's …

Research Findings: This study compared the unique effects of training low-income mothers
in dialogic reading versus elaborative reminiscing on children's oral language and emergent …

Joint book reading is a highly routinized activity that is nearly universal among families.
Conversational agents (CAs) can potentially act as joint-reading partners by engaging …

This study investigated the narrative scaffolding styles of Spanish‐speaking and English‐
speaking mothers as they engaged their preschool‐aged children in family reminiscing and …

Given the changing demographics of young children served by US schools, educational
equity practices must include ways of sustaining cultural heritage practices of children from …

The contributions of mothers' and children's oral language to children's school readiness
were longitudinally examined among 75 low-income mothers and children. When children …

Reading stories to children fosters their language development. An approach rarely
investigated is narrators telling stories without reading from text (ie, oral storytelling). Oral …