Puerto Rican Mothers' Beliefs and Home Literacy Practices
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Puerto Rican mothers' beliefs and home literacy practices.
PURPOSE The aims of this investigation were to examine the parenting beliefs and literacy practices of mothers of Puerto Rican descent and to determine if relationships existed between the mothers' beliefs and practices. METHOD Eighty-one mothers of bilingual children who attended Head Start programs participated in the project. As part of a larger project, the children were divided into 2 gr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0161-1461,1558-9129
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2007/023)