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Early home learning environment and children's concurrent and longitudinal language development
1International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
This study assessed the association between home learning environment (HLE) at 3 years of age and children's concurrent and longitudinal vocabulary skills. HLE consisted of the following activities done with primary caregivers: storytelling, drawing, music, toys and games, everyday home activities, playing outdoors, and reading. Results demonstrated that a higher HLE score at 3 years was concurrently related to higher expressive vocabulary and grammar scores, and longitudinally to higher receptive language scores from 5 to 9 years of age. Taken together, these findings suggest that children's HLE represents a significant contributor to children's concurrent and longitudinal language skills.
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