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Pinto, Giuliana; Tarchi, Christian; Bigozzi, Lucia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Background: The relationship between oral language and the writing process at early acquisition stages and the ways the former can enhance or limit the latter has not been researched extensively. Aims: The predictive relationship between kindergarten oral narrative competence and the first- and second-grade written narrative competence was…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language, Writing (Composition), Story Telling
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Desoete, Annemie; Ceulemans, Annelies; De Weerdt, Frauke; Pieters, Stefanie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: The ability to compare numbers, as the most basic form of number sense, has been related to arithmetical achievement. Aims: The current study addressed the predictive value of non-symbolic and symbolic (number word (NW) and Arabic number (AN)) comparison for arithmetics by means of a longitudinal design. Sample: Sixteen children with…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Jenks, Kathleen M.; van Lieshout, Ernest C. D. M.; de Moor, Jan M. H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: Remarkably few studies have investigated the nature and origin of learning difficulties in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Aims: To investigate math achievement in terms of word-problem solving ability in children with CP and controls. Because of the potential importance of reading for word-problem solving, we investigated reading…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Special Schools, Learning Problems, Early Intervention