The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent
Research shows that infants and preschoolers can learn novel words equally well through addressed speech as through overhearing two adults. However, most of this research draws from samples of ethnic majority children. The current study compares word learning in preschoolers (M age = 5;6) with an ethnic minority and an ethnic majority background (N = 132). An experimenter of the majority group (representative for most teachers in Flemish ...