This chapter offers an overview of early literacy provision in Costa Rica and Chile, two Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Though they are in different phases of change, both countries are striving to improve the ...

© 2022Although the relation between child-caregiver non-present talk and children's language and literacy development has been extensively studied, scarce research has examined the contributions of teacher talk's conceptual, ...

This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children's language ...

Educators' content knowledge is considered a key determinant of classroom practices and thus children's learning. In this study, we examine the nature of associations between early childhood educators' literacy content ...

This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children’s language ...

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 ...

The work presented here has as a research subject playfulness in the early years as a form of literacy. For the composition of this was used qualitative research methodology, based on studies and results of the applicability ...