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  • A socio-cultural perspective on childrenʼs early language : a family study
    Marjanovič Umek, Ljubica ...
    This study examines the effect of certain socio-cultural factors of the family environment on the language of toddlers and children in early childhood. The sample included 86 families with one- to ... six-year-old children. The data on the social, economic, and cultural factors of the family environment, parental reading literacy, parental knowledge of childrenʼs development, childrenʼs exposure to shared reading, and child language were obtained in the family environment. Path analysis was used to verify the presumed structural model, which included social and economic factors of the family environment, parental knowledge of childrenʼs development, and parental reading literacy as independent variables, activities used by parents to encourage their childʼs language as mediating variables, and childrenʼs early literacy and language as a dependent variable. The analysis results showed that the presumed structural modelfitted our data well. Parental education (PE), family financial conditions, parental knowledge of childrenʼs development, and parental reading literacy was able to explain 13% of the variance in child language. The obtained results confirm the significant effect of social, economic, and cultural factors of the childʼs family on language during toddlerhood and early childhood
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 56853346