60 datasets found

Shared book reading has been demonstrated to be an effective way to promote children’s language including preparation for literacy: children who are read to regularly, on...

The aim of this research was to explore whether the advantages of shared book reading (the joint attention and high quality adult language input) remain true where children have...

In a pre-registered cluster randomised controlled trial, 85 lower SES families and their 3- to 4-year old children from 10 different preschools were randomly allocated to take...

Children from disadvantaged families tend to have limited language skills compared to their advantaged peers. While many factors contribute to language ability, two aspects of...

This dataset consists of audio-recordings of naturalistic speech addressed to infants as well as their inventory of words when they were 9, 15 and 21 months of age. All infants...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that seeks to...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that seeks to...

This file contains instructions for the steps we followed for the curve fitting analysis of intonation in the Greek in Contact project. The instructions below assume that a...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first UK population study of...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first UK population study of...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Background: The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset...

Within this project, Mandarin-English bilingual participants completed a series of language production and comprehension tasks. The data provided correspond to three...

This dataset contains data from two studies on deaf children with spoken language multilingualism and professional practice. An increasing number of deaf children are being...

Children’s language closely reflects their recent and long-term experiences of language. Within conversations, children often repeat the words and sentence structures that they...

This study was run additionally to those originally proposed and in response to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. Since we could not conduct in-person testing, we trialled online...

The transition project at the University of Leeds examined the change in academic language encountered by school students when they transition from primary to secondary school....

Touchscreen apps for preschool age children have the potential to teach children valuable skills including language. However, there is limited empirical data on the educational...

For children's wellbeing and educational success, it is essential that they develop their language and communication abilities. The goal of this fellowship was to advance...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The aims of this project were : to build up a comprehensive picture of the development of various facets...