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Young Foreign Language Learners' Interactions during Task-Based Paired Assessments
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Butler, Yuko Goto; Zeng, Wei – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
Despite the popularity of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in foreign language (FL) education at elementary school, it remains unclear how young learners' FL abilities can best be evaluated with tasks. The present study seeks to understand developmental differences in interactions among elementary-school students during task-based language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, FLES, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Generalizing Norms and Preferences within Social Categories and Individuals
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Kalish, Charles W. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Under what conditions will people generalize and remember observed social information? Preschool- (n = 44) and young school-age (n = 46) children and adults (n = 40) heard short vignettes describing characters' actions and motives on a single occasion. Characters were introduced using either proper names or category labels. Test questions asked…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Preferences
Sociodemographic Diversity and Distance Education: Who Drops out from Academic Programs and Why?
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Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Interaction Process in Small Groups of Varied Ages.
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Smith, H. W. – 1971
Data are presented which show: (1) that differences between adult and child psyches have important implications for age-stratified interaction process; and (2) that adult-child interactional differences cannot be solely attributable to genetic or psychological differences but that they are in part due to social factors. The data are based on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Group Dynamics
Feature Binding in Children and Young Adults
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Lorsbach, Thomas C.; Reimer, Jason F. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2005
The authors measured memory for individual features (objects only or locations only) and the combination of those features (objects and locations) in 9-, 12-, and 21-year-old students with a "yes" or "no" recognition task. Analysis of recognition memory performance (d' scores) revealed that although age differences existed in memory for individual…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Grade 3, Grade 6, Young Adults
Peer-Related Communicative Competence of Preschool Children: Developmental and Adaptive Characteristics.
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Guarlnick, Michael J.; Paul-Brown, Diane – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
Analyses of communicative exchanges among 64 playgroup children revealed that both 3-and 4-year-old nonhandicapped children adjusted the communicative function, style, and affective quality of their interactions when addressing mildly developmentally delayed companions. Adjustments were more closely related to interpersonal and social status…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages