Nt1310 Unit 2 Essay

1. In the study were 42 families: 13 were upper socioeconomic status (SES), 10 were middle SES, 13 were lower SES, and six were on welfare.
2. The study was conducted in the families’ homes, observing everything parents and children did together and tape recording, and transcribing all the information they could get.
3. Children from lower income families had smaller vocabularies than did children of the same age in higher income families, but they were also adding words slowly.
4. By age 4, the child in a welfare family had 13 million fewer words of cumulative experience than the child in a working class family; and 32 million fewer words than a child in a professional family.
5. The rate of vocabulary growth at age 3 was strongly associated with scores at age 9-10. Vocabulary use at age 3 was equally predictive of measures of language skill at age 9-10. Vocabulary …show more content…
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