Annual Research Review: How did COVID-19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: A diverse body of research conducted since the start of Covid-19 has investigated the impact of the pandemic on children's environments and their language development. This scoping review synthesises the peer-reviewed research literature on this topic between 2020 and 2023. Following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews, we searched five databases for studies that fulfilled the following inclusion criteria: studies with neurotypical (monolingual or multilingual) 0-6-year-old children; studies focusing on any area of language development, including sources describing literacy or educational practices that impacted language development; studies focusing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no restrictions of geographical location or la

SUBMITTER: Zuniga-Montanez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920612 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature