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Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman; Eliane Segers; Ronald Severing; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
This study examined how Papiamento and Dutch attitude and home literacy environment of 168 children in fourth grade of the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean, predicted L1 and L2 reading literacy in sixth grade. Overall, children had higher scores for reading literacy in L1 Papiamento as compared with L2 Dutch. They showed more positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Indo European Languages, Literacy, Native Language
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Clark, Levina; Tiggemann, Marika – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigated the prospective predictors of body image in 9- to 12-year-old girls. Participants were 150 girls in Grades 4-6 with a mean age of 10.3 years. Girls completed questionnaire measures of media and peer influences (television/magazine exposure, peer appearance conversations), individual psychological variables (appearance…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Body Weight, Intervention, Females
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Tosolt, Brandelyn – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
In U. S. schools, which have a primarily White teaching force but an increasingly non-White student population, students and teachers may not be able to complete caring encounters based on their differing communication patterns. Therefore, it is important to understand what behaviors students view as caring so that teachers can complete caring…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, White Students, Middle School Students, Racial Differences