Children's Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy
Children's Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy
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DOI:
10.1177/0963721420923684
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发表时间:
2020-07-08
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Melby-Lervag, Monica
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作者:
Hulme, Charles;Snowling, Margaret J.;Melby-Lervag, Monica
Oral language is crucial for social interaction and for learning in the classroom; it also provides the foundation for reading comprehension. It follows that children with language difficulties are at high risk of educational failure. Recently, a number of studies have demonstrated that it is possible to produce small but significant improvements in children's oral language through targeted language interventions (d= 0.16) and, furthermore, that studies with high-quality implementation show larger effects (d= 0.24). There is also evidence that effects of language intervention can generalize to produce improvements in reading comprehension. Although further research examining the long-term effects of language interventions are needed, current findings have important implications for educational policy and practice.