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Training Programme Impact in Improving the Working Memory of Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading Arabic
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Aljundi, Khalid – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
The study aimed to investigate the effect of a training program on improving working memory for students with learning difficulties in reading Arabic. The study sample consisted of (10) students with learning disabilities from Basic Education students from the fifth and sixth grades, and those between the ages (10-11) years as a pilot group and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training, Program Effectiveness, Short Term Memory
The Relative Importance of Children's Criteria for Representational Adequacy in the Perception of Simple Sonic Stimuli
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Verschaffel, Lieven; Reybrouck, Mark; Degraeuwe, Goedele; Van Dooren, Wim – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study investigates children's metarepresentational competence (MRC) with regard to listening to and making sense of simple sonic stimuli. Using diSessa's (2002) seminal work on MRC in mathematics and sciences as background, it aims to assess the relative importance children attribute to several criteria for representational adequacy…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Children, Metacognition, Auditory Perception
Cognitive Advantage in Children Enrolled in a Second-Language Immersion Elementary School Program for Three Years
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Nicolay, Anne-Catherine; Poncelet, Martine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Early bilingualism acquired from home or community is generally considered to positively influence cognitive development. The purpose of the present study was to determine to what extent bilingualism acquired through a second-language immersion education has a similar effect. Participants included a total of 106 French-speaking eight-year-old…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Immersion Programs, Executive Function, Second Language Learning
Advances in Music-Reading Research
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Gudmundsdottir, Helga Rut – Music Education Research, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to construct a comprehensive review of the research literature in the reading of western staff notation. Studies in music perception, music cognition, music education and music neurology are cited. The aim is to establish current knowledge in music-reading acquisition and what is needed for further progress in this…
Descriptors: Music Reading, Reading Research, Educational Research, Relationship
The Effects of Aircraft Noise on the Auditory Language Processing Abilities of English First Language Primary School Learners in Durban, South Africa
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Hollander, Cara; de Andrade, Victor Manuel – Urban Education, 2014
Schools located near to airports are exposed to high levels of noise which can cause cognitive, health, and hearing problems. Therefore, this study sought to explore whether this noise may cause auditory language processing (ALP) problems in primary school learners. Sixty-one children attending schools exposed to high levels of noise were matched…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, Air Transportation
Language Development and Learning to Read: The Scientific Study of How Language Development Affects Reading Skill
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McGuinness, Diane – MIT Press (BK), 2005
Research on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among children taught by the same method. Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to read at all? In "Language Development and Learning to Read", Diane…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Speech, Reading Research, Psycholinguistics