The Literacy View
The Literacy View
Judy Boksner
Teacher Talk and Language Development: What Do You Think the Evidence Shows?
1 hour 2 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Ep.160 Does Teacher Talk Really Matter? What the Evidence Shows with Dr. Yan Jiang In this episode of The Literacy View, we sit down with Dr. Yan Jiang, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood and coauthor of a major meta analysis published in Review of Educational Research. Her study analyzes more than one hundred studies examining the relationship between teachers’ language practices and children’s language development from preschool through third grade. There is grow...