Language Matters Lab

Supporting Parents and Educators

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• Raising young children in multilingual Montreal: Immigrant Chinese parents’ language
choices and storybook reading style

Wei Mao & Diane Pesco

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Submitted

• Chinese mothers’ perspectives on supporting young children’s language development
through dialogic reading and co-viewing

Wei Mao & Diane Pesco

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Jan. 2025

• “Why is the bear sad?”: Preparing preservice educators to support children’s inferencing
during storybook reading

Xiuquan (Kathy) Zhu

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Sept. 2024

• Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives on Heritage Language Maintenance and Multilingual Books

Onyemechi Fikani

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April 2023

• “See, That’s a Letter”: Online Instruction to Promote Educators’ Print Referencing

Dima Tajrine

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Dec. 2021

• The Effects of Parental Dialogic Reading and Elaborative Reminiscing on Children’s Narratives and Vocabulary

Katie Boodhoo

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Jan. 2018

• Once Upon A Time: Teaching Preservice Educators Dialogic Reading Strategies

Joëlle Chemali

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April 2015