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Jakobsson, Anders; Kouns, Maria – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
In this study, we have explored the ways in which small-group work in science can contribute to strengthen multilingual students' subject language and conceptual development when working with language-oriented classroom activities in primary classrooms. The aim is to determine whether it is possible to identify factors in interactions in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Tóth, Dénes; Csépe, Valéria – Developmental Science, 2017
The present experiments focused on how orthographic processing develops during reading acquisition. Specifically, a large, cross-sectional sample of children from grade 2 to grade 4 was exposed to pairs of words, pseudowords, digit strings, and pseudo-letter (Armenian) strings while their sensitivity to transpositions (T) and substitutions (S) of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Reading Instruction
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Jared, Debra; Ashby, Jane; Agauas, Stephen J.; Levy, Betty Ann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Three experiments examined the role of phonology in the activation of word meanings in Grade 5 students. In Experiment 1, homophone and spelling control errors were embedded in a story context and participants performed a proofreading task as they read for meaning. For both good and poor readers, more homophone errors went undetected than spelling…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading, Grade 5, Experiments
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Nguyen, Simone P.; Gelman, A. – Cognitive Development, 2012
Four studies examined the role of generic language in facilitating 4- and 5-year-old children's ability to cross-classify. Participants were asked to classify an item into a familiar (taxonomic or script) category, then cross-classify it into a novel (script or taxonomic) category with the help of a clue expressed in either generic or specific…
Descriptors: Classification, Generalization, Children, Experiments
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Borovsky, Arielle; Elman, Jeffrey L.; Fernald, Anne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to anticipate future words. Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary ability is crucially related to lexical processing skills in children. However, little is known about this relationship with predictive sentence processing in children or adults.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Adults, Language Processing, Vocabulary Skills
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Staels, Eva; Van den Broeck, Wim – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
This article reports on 2 studies that attempted to replicate the findings of a study by Szmalec, Loncke, Page, and Duyck (2011) on Hebb repetition learning in dyslexic individuals, from which these authors concluded that dyslexics suffer from a deficit in long-term learning of serial order information. In 2 experiments, 1 on adolescents (N = 59)…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Repetition, Sequential Learning, Neurological Impairments
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Arosio, Fabrizio; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Stucchi, Natale – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
We investigated the role of number agreement on verb and of animacy in the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in 51 monolingual Italian-speaking children, mean age 9:33, tested through a self-paced listening experiment with a final comprehension question. A "digit span test" and a "listening span test" were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Monolingualism, Memory
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Wang, Min; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We reported three experiments investigating subsyllabic unit preference in young Chinese children. In Experiment 1, a Chinese sound similarity judgment task was designed in which 48 pair of stimuli varied in terms of shared subsyllabic units (i.e., vowel, body, rime, onset-coda). Grade 1 Chinese-speaking monolingual children judged pairs with…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Preschool Children, Rhyme