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Linebarger, Deborah L.; Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor – Child Development, 2010
Educational TV has been consistently linked to children's learning. In this research, educational TV characteristics were identified, coded, and tested for their influence on children's program-specific comprehension and vocabulary outcomes. Study 1 details a content analysis of TV features including a program's macrostructure (i.e., narrative or…
Descriptors: Age, Learning Strategies, Educational Television, Content Analysis
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Lederberg, Amy R.; Prezbindowski, Amy K.; Spencer, Patricia E. – Child Development, 2000
Assessed word-learning skills of 19 deaf/hard-of-hearing preschoolers either with novel mapping strategy to learn new words, or after minimal exposure when reference was explicitly established. Found that 11 children were able to learn words in both contexts, 5 only in the second, and 2 in neither. The latter 7 children eventually were able to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Context Effect, Deafness, Language Acquisition