Lexical input to young children from extremely poor communities in argentina: Effects of a home literacy program

The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rosemberg, Celia Renata, Stein, Alejandra, Borzone, Ana Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/53992
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/53992
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Early Literacy
Lexical Input
Poor Communities
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
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Sumario:The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary that these children are exposed to daily with the characteristics of the lexical surround in the literacy settings induced by the implementation of the program. Results showed that literacy situations provided children with an enriched lexical input: a higher amount of word tokens and word types, and more unfamiliar words that represented phenomena, properties or actions not directly observable.