Your child’s vocabulary at age two could reveal their future success, researchers have claimed. 研究人员声称,你家孩子两岁时的词汇量会揭示未来的成功。 They found children with better academic and behavioural functioning when they started kindergarten often had better educational and societal opportunities as they grew up. 他们发现孩子开始上幼儿园时,学术和行为机能更好的人随着年龄成长,也将拥有更好的教育和社会机遇。 They say children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievements are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married, and live in higher-income neighbourhoods as adults. 他们说进入幼儿园时,阅读和数学水平更高的孩子更有可能上大学、买房子、结婚、成年之后住进高档小区。 It found that children with larger oral vocabularies by age 2 arrived at kindergarten better prepared academically and behaviourally than their peers. 研究发现:2岁时口语词汇量更大的孩子进入幼儿园时在学习和行为上要比同龄孩子准备得更好。 The study was conducted by researchers at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of California, Irvine, and Columbia University, who analysed nationally representative data for 8,650 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, and appears in the journal Child Development. |