Dr. Irena Lovčević

This study assessed the association between home learning environment (HLE) at three years of age and children’s concurrent and longitudinal vocabulary skills. HLE consisted of the following activities done with primary caregivers: storytelling, drawing, music, toys and games, everyday home activities, playing outdoors, and reading. Results demonstrated that a higher HLE score at three years was concurrently related to higher expressive vocabulary and grammar scores, and longitudinally to higher receptive language scores from five to nine years of age. Taken together, these findings suggest that children’s HLE represents a significant contributor to children’s concurrent and longitudinal language skills.