[Linganth] FW: Word Gap intervention evaluation studies?

[Arnold, Lynnette]

Just chiming in with two points.

The Language and Social Justice Committee has compiled a bibliography of
written critiques of the "word gap", which is available here
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/socialjustice/initiatives/language-gap-teaching-resources/>
(on the SLA site) along with some teaching resources we have been putting
together on this topic.

My sense is the same as Michele's that there just hasn't been much good
work on evaluating implementations, and that sadly, the Brown study that
Kit mentions is one of the most substantive out there. This would certainly
be a valuable angle for future research for sure! (The relationship between
Providence Talks and Brown University is very interesting and quite complex
- I've learned a little about it during my time here and am happy to talk
to anyone about it offline).


Lynnette Arnold, PhD
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Anthropology
Swearer Center for Public Service
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Brown University


On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:49 PM Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Many thanks to those who’ve responded with suggestions. Here is one from
> Michele Koven, who’s having trouble posting to the list.
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> So far I haven’t found evaluations/critiques of evaluations of the actual
> interventions such as Providence Talks or the 30 Million Word Initiative,
> which particularly interest me. Cartmill 2016 mentions that it was too
> early for those at the time of writing.
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> Best to all,
>
> Kit
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> *From: *Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, April 15, 2019 at 5:54 PM
> *To: *Kathryn Woolard <kwoolard at ucsd.edu>
> *Subject: *Re: [Linganth] Word Gap intervention evaluation studies?
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> Hi,
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> Here is a popular press link that summarizes Doug Sperry’s findings that
> challenge the word gap.
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> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/word-gap-low-income-children-psychology-reproducibility
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> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:21 PM Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu>
> wrote:
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> Does anyone have references for, and/or a critical summary of, follow-up
> evaluation studies of home language socialization interventions based on
> the “Word Gap” model, such as “Providence Talks” or other LENA-based
> interventions?
>
> Brief googling has led me only to short (glowing) news reports 2017-18 and
> an unpublished ms. of a Brown University study of Providence Talks, which
> falls far short in research standards in my view. For evaluation of change
> in child language skills, it uses only a self-administered parent
> evaluation form devised and provided by LENA itself to its participants.
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> Thanks for any leads.
>
> Kit Woolard
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