Recent research investigating the possible association between language development and poverty found that the socioeconomic status of parents did not uniformly relate to the number of words to which preschoolers are exposed. This suggests that ______________.children raised in households that are below the federal poverty line should show a “rebound effect” when they enter middle school, and excel in their language arts courseshousehold income is a reliable predictor of vocabulary size, both among parents and their childreneven children raised in relatively poorer households are exposed to language at the same rates as those raised in more affluent householdsbeing raised in poverty means that children have fewer opportunities to be exposed to a wide range of vocabulary and examples of language use

Research findings from studies conducted in the 1990s and more recent studies, all investigating the link between socioeconomic status and language development, reached very different conclusions. Which important factor contributed to these varying outcomes?Earlier research included a very large sample of bilingual children; the researchers didn’t differentiate between exposure to one language versus the other.Recent researchers surveyed an extremely large, representative sample of children from all over the world, rather than just the United States; 212 countries contributed data.Earlier research focused on the development of holophrases during middle school, whereas more recent research concentrated on syntax used during infancy.Recent researchers used a more expansive definition of language exposure, including not only the words used by parents of preschoolers but also other caretakers and adults in the children’s environment.

Which of the following provides evidence for the nurture approach to language acquisition? Overregularisation The critical period Poverty of the input Social learning

By age 5, children raised in poverty tend to score ________ on _________ tests compared to children raised in affluence.lower; social skillslower; intelligencehigher; social skillshigher; verbal skills

What can adults do daily to increase a child’s exposure to language?

Which intervention is MOST likely to positively impact the cognitive development of students from families who live in poverty?