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Cozzani, Francesca; Zanobini, Mirella; Usai, Maria Carmen – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of linguistic training based on the use of the Drežancic method in educational settings. It is hypothesized that characteristics of this method, based on the typical stages of linguistic and cognitive development, could influence both language competence and executive function (EF). A…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Control Groups, Child Care Centers, Experimental Groups
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Cowan, Nelson; Leavitt, Lewis A. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Describes the ability of two boys to speak backward and discusses private speech play behavior in relation to linguistic, cognitive, and social development. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Oral Language
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Kim, Kyung J. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
In Experiment 1; English-speaking preschool children were given sentence verification task to study development of concept of truth-functional negation. Expereiment 2 was a cross-linguistic replication with Korean-speaking preschool children. Despite same cross-linguistic differences in negation system, Korean-speaking children showed essentially…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education
Strickland, Dorothy S. – 1983
Language learning is complex and mysterious--because of the many diverse factors that affect its development and because of the many unanswered questions about its nature. Even so, the efforts of countless researchers have provided sufficient knowledge to prompt some recommendations about how adults may nurture the language and literacy…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cognitive Development, English Instruction, Higher Education