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Kamal, Sana M.; Haj-Tas, Maisa A. – College Student Journal, 2014
Conversational repairs are an important pragmatic language skill. We identified types of responses to requests for clarification and their frequencies in typically developing 4;0-6;0-year-old Jordanian children. This study was motivated by the fact that there are no Arabic data regarding this issue and by the limited range of forms of requests for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Strategies
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Holliday, Matthew R.; Cimetta, Adriana; Cutshaw, Christina A.; Yaden, David; Marx, Ronald W. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
The economic status of families and their children's learning outcomes are closely related. For example, children living in poverty tend to score worse on measures of reading and math performance than their more affluent peers, and this achievement gap is present by kindergarten. In this study, we identified protective factors associated with…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement