Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: The effect of home literacy factors on English and Spanish linguistic proficiency and pre-literacy skills for Spanish-speaking children

读写能力的发展是儿童教育的重要组成部分，口语技能和读写前技能都能很好地预测幼儿未来的阅读能力。孩子的家庭经历被认为是发展这些技能的基础。这一博士后研究和培训项目的目的是确定在两个主要过渡时期，家庭扫盲因素与低收入拉美裔儿童语言和扫盲技能发展之间的关系。这些过渡包括从家里进入学前班，然后从学前班进入幼儿园教室。样本将根据预科课程开始时确定的英语和西班牙语熟练程度分为几组。整个样本的识字前技能将在学前教育开始和结束时以及在幼儿园期间进行一次评估。在三个时间点期间，将对样本的一部分进行家访，以收集有关家庭扫盲因素的信息。将进行分析，以检验家庭识字因素影响语言熟练程度的假设，共同影响语言之间和跨语言的识字前技能。此外，还将调查过渡期间家庭识字做法的变化。

Literacy development is one of the most important components of a child's education.Both oral language skills and pre-literacy skills are strong predictors of young children's future reading ability. The child's home experiences are considered the foundation for the development of these skills. The purpose of this postdoctoral research and training project is to determine a relationship between home literacy factors and the development of language and literacy skills in young low income Hispanic children, during two major transitional periods. These transitions include moving from home into a preschool program followed by moving from preschool into a kindergarten classroom. The sample will be divided into clusters based on English and Spanish proficiency levels, determined at the beginning of pre-k. Pre-literacy skills will be assessed for the entire sample at the beginning and end of pre-k as well as once during kindergarten. Home visits to collect information on home literacy factors will occur for a subset of the sample during three time points. Analyses will be conducted to test the hypotheses that home literacy factors shape language proficiency, jointly influencing pre-literacy skills between and across languages. Additionally, changes in home literacy practices during transition will be investigated.