Abstract

This application seeks to supplement the on-going research grant entitled, """"""""Bilingual Preschoolers: Precursors to Literacy"""""""" (5 R01 HD39496-03) funded for five years by the joint NICHD/OERI biliteracy research initiative, Development of English Literacy in Spanish Speaking Children (DELSS). This prospective longitudinal investigation is currently beginning its third year and is designed to improve our understanding of the language and literacy development and home environment of Head Start children of Puerto Rican descent by (1) determining if the rate and quality of speech, language and literacy development of children learning Spanish and English sequentially differs from that of children learning both languages simultaneously; (2) identifying the individual differences in oral language and the home environment that lead to better literacy outcomes; and (3) describing in-depth the characteristics of children's linguistic systems that are associated with literacy outcomes and qualitative aspects of the home environment that mediate between the children's linguistic systems and literacy outcomes. This supplemental application proposes to extend the first two aims of the parent grant by studying children's language and reading development and home environment during first and second grades. It also expands the second question to include a study of the classroom-reading environment and its relationship to reading outcomes. The data will provide greatly needed longitudinal information about the course of bilingual children's language and reading development across a 4 and 5 year period and result in an understanding of the relationships among children's language abilities and home environment during their preschool years and reading outcomes during early elementary school years. The addition of classroom data allows for exploration of the relationships between classroom variables and reading outcomes of bilingual children who have varying language characteristics and home environments. ? ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
3R01HD039496-04S1
Application #
6670635
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZHD1-DSR-H (01))
Program Officer
Mccardle, Peggy D
Project Start
2000-09-01
Project End
2005-05-31
Budget Start
2003-08-01
Budget End
2004-05-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$250,865
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Pennsylvania State University
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Allied Health Profes
DUNS #
003403953
City
University Park
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
16802

  Publications

Bitetti, Dana; Hammer, Carol Scheffner (2016) The Home Literacy Environment and the English Narrative Development of Spanish-English Bilingual Children. J Speech Lang Hear Res 59:1159-1171
Lewis, Kandia; Sandilos, Lia E; Hammer, Carol Scheffner et al. (2016) Relations Among the Home Language and Literacy Environment and Children's Language Abilities: A Study of Head Start Dual Language Learners and Their Mothers. Early Educ Dev 27:478-494
Cycyk, Lauren M; Bitetti, Dana; Hammer, Carol Scheffner (2015) Maternal Depressive Symptomatology, Social Support, and Language Development of Bilingual Preschoolers From Low-Income Households. Am J Speech Lang Pathol 24:411-25
Davison, Megan Dunn; Hammer, Carol Scheffner (2012) Development of 14 English grammatical morphemes in Spanish-English preschoolers. Clin Linguist Phon 26:728-42
Scarpino, Shelley E; Lawrence, Frank R; Davison, Megan D et al. (2011) Predicting bilingual Spanish-English children's phonological awareness abilities from their preschool English and Spanish oral language. J Res Read 34:77-93
Davison, Megan Dunn; Hammer, Carol; Lawrence, Frank R (2011) Associations between preschool language and first grade reading outcomes in bilingual children. J Commun Disord 44:444-58
Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Lawrence, Frank; Rodriguez, Barbara et al. (2011) Changes in language usage of Puerto Rican mothers and their children: Do gender and timing of exposure to English matter? Appl Psycholinguist 32:275-297
Rodriguez, Barbara L; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Lawrence, Frank R (2009) Parent Reading Belief Inventory: Reliability and Validity With a Sample of Mexican American Mothers. Early Educ Dev 20:826-844
Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Davison, Megan Dunn; Lawrence, Frank R et al. (2009) The Effect of Maternal Language on Bilingual Children's Vocabulary and Emergent Literacy Development During Head Start and Kindergarten. Sci Stud Read 13:99-121
Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Lawrence, Frank R; Miccio, Adele W (2008) The effect of summer vacation on bilingual preschoolers'language development. Clin Linguist Phon 22:686-702

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