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Sara E. Schroer; Ryan E. Peters; Chen Yu – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Real-time attention coordination in parent-toddler dyads is often studied in tightly controlled laboratory settings. These studies have demonstrated the importance of joint attention in scaffolding the development of attention and the types of dyadic behaviors that support early language learning. Little is known about how often these behaviors…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Measurement Techniques, Toddlers, Child Development
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Lauren Covey; Robert Fiorentino; Alison Gabriele – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates the processing of "wh"-dependencies in English by native speakers and advanced Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners. We examined processing at a filled gap site that was in a licit position (non-island) or located inside an island, a grammatically unlicensed position. Natives showed N400 in the non-island condition,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
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Grote, Kandice S.; Scott, Rose M.; Gilger, Jeffrey – First Language, 2021
Recent research suggests that bilinguals might exhibit advantages in several areas of executive function, including working memory, inhibitory control, and attentional control. However, few studies have examined potential bilingual advantages within lower socioeconomic status (SES) populations. Here we addressed this gap in the literature by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Inhibition
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Crespo, Kimberly; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The current study examined the role of attention and language ability in nonverbal rule induction performance in a demographically diverse sample of school-age children. Method: The participants included 43 English-speaking monolingual and 65 Spanish-English bilingual children between the ages of 5 and 9 years. Core Language Index…
Descriptors: Role, Learning Processes, Attention Control, Language Skills
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Ebert, Kerry Danahy; Rak, Diane; Slawny, Caitlyn M.; Fogg, Louis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Attention and language are hypothesized to interact in bilingual children and in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). In children who are bilingual, attentional control may be enhanced by repeated experience regulating 2 languages. In children with DLD, subtle weaknesses in sustained attention may relate to impaired…
Descriptors: Attention, Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Attention Control
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Tierney, Adam; Rosen, Stuart; Dick, Fred – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Speech is more difficult to understand when it is presented concurrently with a distractor speech stream. One source of this difficulty is that competing speech can act as an attentional lure, requiring listeners to exert attentional control to ensure that attention does not drift away from the target. Stronger attentional control may enable…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Individual Differences, Speech Communication, Attention Control
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Arredondo, Maria M.; Hu, Xiao-Su; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – Developmental Science, 2017
Bilingualism is a typical linguistic experience, yet relatively little is known about its impact on children's cognitive and brain development. Theories of bilingualism suggest that early dual-language acquisition can improve children's cognitive abilities, specifically those relying on frontal lobe functioning. While behavioral findings present…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Craig, Jacob W. – Composition Forum, 2019
Extending research on the relationships between materiality and process, this article examines how writers' preferences for particular materials--places, technologies, objects--develop over time. With a specific focus on how materials affect writers and how writers are affected by their writing tasks, this article considers how writers' histories…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Correlation, Preferences, Authors
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined to what extent English-speaking learners of Arabic demonstrated varied metalinguistic knowledge of a salient feature (head-direction) vs. an unsalient feature (definiteness) in the Arabic construct state. In addition, it examined whether this knowledge was utilized in form-focused task performance. In the target construction,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
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Nicoladis, Elena; Jiang, Zixia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
The primary purpose of the present study was to test language and cognitive predictors of lexical selection in the storytelling of monolingual and bilingual children. Measures of language proficiency and cognitive ability were assessed with both English- and Mandarin-speaking monolinguals and Mandarin-English bilinguals aged 4 to 6 years old. To…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development
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Yilmaz, Yucel; Granena, Gisela – Modern Language Journal, 2019
The present study investigated a group of cognitive individual differences considered advantageous in second language learning and their role in language learning under implicit and explicit feedback conditions using both language awareness and language development measures. The study further investigated whether different types of awareness are…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Rai, Manpreet K.; Loschky, Lester C.; Harris, Richard Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study investigated how resource-demanding reading tasks and stressful conditions affect 1st-language (L1) and intermediate 2nd-language (L2) reading comprehension. Using the attentional control theory framework (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), we investigated the roles of central executive working memory (WM) resources,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
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Verhoef, Kim M. W.; Roelofs, Ardi; Chwilla, Dorothee J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
Language switching in bilingual speakers requires attentional control to select the appropriate language, for example, in picture naming. Previous language-switch studies used the color of pictures to indicate the required language thereby confounding endogenous and exogenous control. To investigate endogenous language control, our language cues…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cues
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Roelofs, Ardi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Disagreement exists about whether color-word Stroop facilitation is caused by converging information (e.g., Cohen et al., 1990; Roelofs, 2003) or inadvertent reading (MacLeod & MacDonald, 2000). Four experiments tested between these hypotheses by examining Stroop effects on response time (RT) both within and between languages. Words cannot be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Control, Inhibition, Color
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Trueswell, John C.; Papafragou, Anna – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
What role does language play during attention allocation in perceiving and remembering events? We recorded adults' eye movements as they studied animated motion events for a later recognition task. We compared native speakers of two languages that use different means of expressing motion (Greek and English). In Experiment 1, eye movements revealed…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Eye Movements, Attention Control, Motion
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