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Friesen, Deanna C.; Ward, Olivia; Archibald, Lisa M. D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined language group differences in English syntactic knowledge based on performance on a sentence repetition task. Method: Fourth and sixth grade students who were monolinguals (n = 30), early bilinguals (i.e., simultaneous; n = 27), or late bilinguals (i.e., sequential; n = 29) completed an English sentence repetition…
Descriptors: Repetition, Bilingual Students, Monolingualism, Grade 4
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; LaFavre, Scott; Shinham, Kristin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Critical thinking pervades formal educational benchmarks in the United States, including the Common Core State Standards. However, little information is available on how it develops. Hence, the primary purpose of this study was to examine the development of critical thinking in adolescents using a written language-sampling task. We also…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Folk Culture, Task Analysis, Middle School Students
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Park, Jisook; Miller, Carol A.; Mainela-Arnold, Elina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This study investigated the relative utility of linguistic and nonlinguistic processing speed tasks as predictors of language impairment (LI) in children across 2 time points. Method: Linguistic and nonlinguistic reaction time data, obtained from 131 children (89 children with typical development [TD] and 42 children with LI; 74 boys and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Impairments, Predictor Variables, Reaction Time