The home literacy environment is a correlate, but perhaps not a cause, of variations in children’s language and literacy development
<p>The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children’s language and literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal and indirect measures of the home literacy environment predict children’s reading and language skills once maternal language abilities are...
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| author | Puglisi, M Hulme, C Hamilton, L Snowling, M |
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| description | <p>The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children’s language and literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal and indirect measures of the home literacy environment predict children’s reading and language skills once maternal language abilities are taken into account. Data come from a longitudinal study of children at high-risk of dyslexia (N=251) followed from preschool years. Latent factors describing maternal language were significant predictors of storybook exposure but not of direct literacy instruction. Maternal language and phonological skills respectively predicted children’s language and reading/spelling skills. However, after accounting for variations in maternal language, storybook exposure was not a significant predictor of children’s outcomes. In contrast, direct literacy instruction remained a predictor of children’s reading/spelling skills. We argue that the relationship between early informal home literacy activities and children’s language and reading skills is largely accounted for by maternal skills and may reflect genetic influences.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f733bb17-245e-49b1-9208-5485aaa6e8f92022-03-27T12:41:08ZThe home literacy environment is a correlate, but perhaps not a cause, of variations in children’s language and literacy developmentJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f733bb17-245e-49b1-9208-5485aaa6e8f9Symplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Puglisi, MHulme, CHamilton, LSnowling, M <p>The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children’s language and literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal and indirect measures of the home literacy environment predict children’s reading and language skills once maternal language abilities are taken into account. Data come from a longitudinal study of children at high-risk of dyslexia (N=251) followed from preschool years. Latent factors describing maternal language were significant predictors of storybook exposure but not of direct literacy instruction. Maternal language and phonological skills respectively predicted children’s language and reading/spelling skills. However, after accounting for variations in maternal language, storybook exposure was not a significant predictor of children’s outcomes. In contrast, direct literacy instruction remained a predictor of children’s reading/spelling skills. We argue that the relationship between early informal home literacy activities and children’s language and reading skills is largely accounted for by maternal skills and may reflect genetic influences.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Puglisi, M Hulme, C Hamilton, L Snowling, M The home literacy environment is a correlate, but perhaps not a cause, of variations in children’s language and literacy development |
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