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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya / Knauer, Heather Ashley.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Knauer, Heather Ashley.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adaptation to Climate Change.
- Dialogic Reading.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Educational Institutions and Facilities.
- Educational Sciences.
- Effective Schools and Teachers.
- Environment.
- Inequality.
- Local-Language Storybooks.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Primary School Readiness.
- Word Gap.
- Local Subjects:
- Adaptation to Climate Change.
- Dialogic Reading.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Educational Institutions and Facilities.
- Educational Sciences.
- Effective Schools and Teachers.
- Environment.
- Inequality.
- Local-Language Storybooks.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Primary School Readiness.
- Word Gap.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages)
- Other Title:
- Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study was to test several variants of a potentially scalable, cost-effective intervention to increase cognitive stimulation by parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program that used culturally and linguistically appropriate books adapted for a low-literacy population. The study used a cluster randomized controlled trial with four intervention arms and one control arm in a sample of caregivers (n
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