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HEAD START TEACHERS' AND LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS PARENTS' VOCABULARY USAGE
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FISHER, JAMIE DeVon
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Year and Degree
2007, MA, University of Cincinnati, Allied Health Sciences : Communication Science and Disorders.
Abstract
Research regarding preschool children’s vocabulary from low socioeconomic status (SES) has shown that these children tend to have more limited vocabulary then children from higher SES. The people they communicate with may impact their acquisition of vocabulary. This study examined differences between vocabulary used by Head Start teachers during an “arts and craft” / dramatic play activity and vocabulary used by low SES parents from a study conducted by Weizman and Snow (2001). Weizman and Snow found that 99% of maternal input, used by low SES parent participants consisted of words that fall within the 3,000 most frequently used words in English. In comparison, the current study found that 91% of the vocabulary used by Head Start participants fell within the 3,000 most frequently used words.
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Dr. Nancy Creaghead (Advisor)
Pages
70 p.
Subject Headings
Education, Language and Literature
Keywords
head start
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low socio-economic status
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vocabulary
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FISHER, J. D. (2007).
HEAD START TEACHERS' AND LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS PARENTS' VOCABULARY USAGE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179369020
APA Style (7th edition)
FISHER, JAMIE.
HEAD START TEACHERS' AND LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS PARENTS' VOCABULARY USAGE.
2007. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179369020.
MLA Style (8th edition)
FISHER, JAMIE. "HEAD START TEACHERS' AND LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS PARENTS' VOCABULARY USAGE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179369020
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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