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A Multidimensional Approach to Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers' Narrative Skills (Un enfoque multidimensional de las habilidades narrativas de los niños preescolares bilingües inglés/español)
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Shiro, Martha; Hoff, Erika – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
We identify language and discourse skills in 54-month-old Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers and their English-speaking monolingual peers, using multiple measures. Forty-one Spanish-English bilingual and 25 English monolingual children, all US born, viewed an eight-minute wordless video. The bilingual children recounted the story once in…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children
Verbal and Non-Verbal Analogical Reasoning in the Emergent Literacy Period: An Exploratory Analysis of the Influence of AR Modality on Listening Comprehension, Phonological Awareness and Lexical Skills (Razonamiento analógico verbal y no verbal en el período de alfabetización emergente: un análisis exploratorio de la influencia de modalidad de AR sobre la comprensión auditiva, la conciencia fonológica y las habilidades léxicas)
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Norambuena, Yeniè S.; Riffo, Bernardo E.; Sáez, Katia L. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Despite the important role assigned to analogical reasoning (AR) in cognition and language, the relationship between this ability and language skills in the emergent literacy period has not been sufficiently studied, especially in Spanish speakers. To explore this link, we examined two modalities of AR (verbal and non-verbal) as predictors of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children