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Investigating the Bilingual Advantage: The Impact of L2 Exposure on the Social and Cognitive Skills of Monolingually-Raised Children in Bilingual Education
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Chamorro, Gloria; Janke, Vikki – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Most research reporting that bilingual children exhibit enhanced cognitive skills and social awareness relative to their monolingual peers focusses on children raised and educated bilingually, making it difficult to pinpoint the degree of second language exposure necessary for such advantages to materialise. The current study measures the social…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students, Spanish
Predictors of Reading and Spelling Difficulties in Italian Children: Specific Language and General Cognitive Skills
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Angela Pasqualotto; Paola Venuti – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
This study investigated the role of domain-specific and domain-general factors in predicting early literacy skills in Italian children. A sample of 239 first-grade students was evaluated using a broad neuropsychological battery to assess their cognitive skills. The results showed that phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, speed of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Spelling
How Does Attention Relate to the Ability-Specific and Position-Specific Components of Reasoning Measured by APM?
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Ren, Xuezhu; Goldhammer, Frank; Moosbrugger, Helfried; Schweizer, Karl – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The aim of the present study was to clarify the nature of the ability-specific and position-specific components of Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) by relating them to a number of types of attention. The ability-specific component represents the constant part of cognitive performance whereas the position-specific component reflects the…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Ability, Models, Data
Development of Higher Mental Functions in First-Graders during the School Year Depending on the Intensity of Educational Activities
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Tvardovskaya, Alla A.; Svinar, Elena V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the fact that most children who start to study do not have a good level of higher mental functions. It leads to difficulties at school and health problems. The article aims at estimating the level of higher mental functions and the degree of educational motivation development among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Thinking Skills