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Article Dans Une Revue Language Development Research Année : 2022

COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains

Mireille Babineau
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Ewa Haman
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Naomi Havron
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Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
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Magdalena Łuniewska
Luis Muñoz
Lynn Perry
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Michal Zivan
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Julien Mayor
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The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children’s language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged8-36 months across 13 countries and 12 languages were evaluated at the beginning and end of the first lockdown period in their respective countries(from March to September 2020). Children who had less passive screen exposure and whose caregivers read more to them showed larger gains in vocabulary development during lockdown, after controlling for SES and other caregiver-child activities. Children also gained more words than expected (based on normative data) during lockdown; either caregivers were more aware of their child’s development or vocabulary development benefited from intense caregiver-child interaction during lockdown.
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halshs-03814773 , version 1 (10-03-2023)

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Natalia Kartushina, Nivedita Mani, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes, Khadeejah Alaslani, Naomi J Aldrich, et al.. COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Language Development Research, 2022, 2 (1), ⟨10.34842/abym-xv34⟩. ⟨halshs-03814773⟩
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