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Kata Csizér; Dávid Smid; Anna Zólyomi; Ágnes Albert – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book highlights the roles of several individual difference (ID) variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. It presents the results of a large-scale, mixed-methods investigation which was conducted with secondary school pupils and their teachers in Hungary. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Ridgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language
Warden, Kathleen; Wycoff, Jean – 1984
The effect of counselors' level of experience on clients' expression of feeling has not been investigated using stylistic and semantic measures. To examine the influence of affectively oriented counselors' level of experience, six counselors at three experience levels (low--masters, counseling practicum students; medium--doctoral, counseling…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Counseling, Counselor Characteristics, Counselors
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Harris, Paul L.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Two studies examined the development of children's knowledge of the situations that provoke emotion. English and Dutch (Study 1) and Nepalese (Study 2) children were presented common emotional terms and asked to describe situations likely to provoke each emotion. In both cases, the determinants suggested by the children indicated that children…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Body Language, Children
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Camras, Linda A.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
A total of 60 adults and 60 first graders were presented with brief stories and asked to supply the verbal statement (or directive) that would be used by the story character. Results confirmed expectations regarding situational use of directives for neutral-affect story characters. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Language Usage, Situational Tests
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Bloom, Lois; Capatides, Joanne Bitetti – Child Development, 1987
Results indicated that the more frequently the children studied expressed emotion, the older the age of language achievements; and the more time spent in neutral affect, the younger the age of language achievements. (PCB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Individual Development, Infant Behavior
Uphoff, Jane W.; and Others – 1983
Although role or perspective taking has been considered important for the development of mature social thought and behavior, and training for perspective taking has been used to remediate deficient behavior, few studies with either normal or disturbed populations have examined naturally occurring behaviors expected to correlate with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Behavior Problems, Children
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Kopp, Claire B. – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Focuses on: (1) principles that underlie regulation of distress and negative emotions among infants and young children; and (2) developmental trends that occur during the first years of life. Discusses the role of caregivers. Offers ideas that lend themselves to hypothesis testing and empirical validation. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Emotional Experience, Individual Development
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Nabuzoka, Dabie; Smith, Peter K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Comparison of the ability of 74 children with and 19 children without learning disabilities (LD) at three age levels to identify expressions of emotions through facial, posture, and gesture cues found that LD children identified fewer emotions but did show some age progression. Some emotions were more readily identified than others. Most gender…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Body Language, Children, Communication Skills
Jose, Paul E.; Wong-McCarthy, William J. – 1983
In mixed-sex discussion groups males tend to dominant conversation, focusing the discussion on task-oriented topics. In order to investigate the effect of the sex-role orientation of the speaker on verbal participation in group discussions, 54 college students (28 male, 26 female) participated in three 15-minute, four person group discussions.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Androgyny, College Students, Group Dynamics
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Bretherton, Inge; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines young children's developing ability to talk about emotions, considers evidence concerning the ability to talk about emotions in the conduct of interpersonal interaction, and offers ideas about future directions for research, emphasizing the functionalist approach to the analysis of emotion-denoting terms. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Expressive Language
Narvaez, Alice; Hertel, Paula T. – 1983
Memory for everyday conversational speech may be influenced by the nonverbally communicated emotion of the speaker. In order to investigate this premise, three videotaped scenes with bipolar emotional perspectives (joy/fear about going away to college, fear/anger about having been robbed, and disgust/interest regarding a friend's infidelity) were…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Body Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Rogers, Sally J., Ed.; Williams, Justin H. G., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
From earliest infancy, a typically developing child imitates or mirrors the facial expressions, postures and gestures, and emotional behavior of others. Where does this capacity come from, and what function does it serve? What happens when imitation is impaired? Synthesizing cutting-edge research emerging from a range of disciplines, this…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Infants, Communication Problems, Affective Behavior
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Luke, Carmen – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1985
This update of a bibliography published in Canadian Journal of Educational Communication (Fall 1982; Winter 1983) cites qualitative research seeking a more comprehensive, contextual account of children's television viewing. Specific items deal with viewing time, family role, habit modification, fright reaction, commercials, affective and language…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Childrens Television
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Lehrer, Richard; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
This study examined the instructional effectiveness of three software learning environments--LOGO, drill and practice, and teacher-directed activities--for preschool special needs children. Cognitive distancing was applied to classify children and child-software interactions; dependent measures included indicators of problem solving, skill…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis