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Veraksa, Alexander N. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
This article used two studies to investigate sign and symbol mediation in children aged 8-11 years. In role play, children exist at one at the same time in objective reality and their representation of reality. We cannot observe their mental representation directly, but the issue of whether signs or symbols mediate early role play is an important…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Children
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Kyte, Christiane S.; Johnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The objective of this research was to explore whether orthographic learning occurs as a result of phonological recoding, as expected from the self-teaching hypothesis. The participants were 32 fourth- and fifth-graders (mean age = 10 years 0 months, SD = 7 months) who performed lexical decisions for monosyllabic real words and pseudowords under…
Descriptors: Phonology, Grade 4, Grade 5, Word Recognition