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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Psycholinguist. 2011 Apr;32(2):275–297. doi: 10.1017/S014271641000041X

Table 1.

Proportion of mother to child language over time

Head Start
Kindergarten First Grade
Year 1 Year 2
All (number) 75 66 58 62
 All or more English 0.26 0.34 0.43 0.50
 Equal English and Spanish 0.35 0.38 0.31 0.23
 All or more Spanish 0.39 0.28 0.26 0.27
HEC
 All or more English 0.39 0.44 0.57 0.69
 Equal English and Spanish 0.43 0.42 0.31 0.20
 All or more Spanish 0.18 0.14 0.11 0.11
SEC
 All or more English 0.10 0.21 0.22 0.26
 Equal English and Spanish 0.22 0.34 0.30 0.26
 All or more Spanish 0.68 0.45 0.48 0.48
To male children
 All or more English 0.42 0.50 0.62 0.67
 Equal English and Spanish 0.35 0.35 0.32 0.25
 All or more Spanish 0.23 0.15 0.04 0.08
To female children
 All or more English 0.16 0.23 0.29 0.39
 Equal English and Spanish 0.34 0.41 0.29 0.21
 All or more Spanish 0.50 0.36 0.42 0.40

Note: HEC, home English communicators; SEC, school English communicators.