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Latino Maternal Literacy Beliefs and Practices Mediating Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Education Effects in Predicting Child Receptive Vocabulary
Early education and development, Vol.28(1), pp.78-95
01/02/2017
Web of Science ID: WOS:000390898100005
Abstract
Research Findings: This study investigated the association between Mexican American maternal education and socioeconomic status (SES) and child vocabulary as mediated by parental reading beliefs, home literacy environment (HLE), and parent-child shared reading frequency. As part of a larger study, maternal reports of education level, SES, HLE, and reading beliefs along with child expressive and receptive vocabulary were collected for 252 mothers and their preschool children from 2 demographically similar school districts in 1 county. Correlations were moderate and positive, with higher levels of maternal education related to family income, HLE, book availability, and children's expressive and receptive vocabulary. Consistent with long-standing evidence, maternal education and SES were predictors of children's vocabulary, albeit indirectly through maternal reading beliefs, HLE, and reading frequency. Practice or Policy: Findings extend current knowledge about specific pathways through which social class variables impact children's language. Policy implications, directions for future research, and study limitations are noted.
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- Title
- Latino Maternal Literacy Beliefs and Practices Mediating Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Education Effects in Predicting Child Receptive Vocabulary
- Publication Details
- Early education and development, Vol.28(1), pp.78-95
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- R305G050121 / Project Words of Oral Reading and Language Development (WORLD) Reading Comprehension and Reading Scale-Up Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
- Copyright
- © 2016 Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- WOS:000390898100005; 99381340010606600
- Academic Unit
- Teaching, Leadership, and Research; School of Education
- Language
- English