Shared book reading in preschool supports bilingual children’s second- language learning : a cluster-randomized trial

Abstract: This cluster-randomized controlled study examined dual language learners (DLLs) in Norway who received a book-based language intervention program. About 464 DLLs aged 3–5 years in 123 early childhood classrooms participated in the study. The children were acquiring Norwegian as their second language in preschool and spoke a variety of first languages at home. They received a researcher-developed intervention that was organized around loosely scripted, content-rich shared reading in school and at home. Receiving the intervention had significant impacts on the children’s second-language skills (effect sizes of d = .25–.66). In addition to supporting second-language vocabulary and grammar, the program with its focus on perspective taking during shared reading resulted in impacts on children’s ability to shift perspectives and understand others’ emotional states

EKOREEF - Report 4: lmpacts and waste management

This project comprises 3 aspects: 1. To assess the positive and negative environmental impacts of the construction, short-term and long-term reuse of Ekofisk structures as artificial reefs. 2. To predict the socio-economic consequences of such a strategy. 3. A plan for the management of material thait cannot be lett on the reef will be proposed. The findings of this report are to be summarised and simplified in a main report for the Ekoreef programme

EKOREEF - Report 4: lmpacts and waste management

This project comprises 3 aspects: 1. To assess the positive and negative environmental impacts of the construction, short-term and long-term reuse of Ekofisk structures as artificial reefs. 2. To predict the socio-economic consequences of such a strategy. 3. A plan for the management of material thait cannot be lett on the reef will be proposed. The findings of this report are to be summarised and simplified in a main report for the Ekoreef programme