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Contingent Responsivity in E-Books Modeled from Quality Adult-Child Interactions: Effects on Children's Learning and Attention
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Cassondra M. Eng; Anthony S. Tomasic; Erik D. Thiessen – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Experiences of contingent responsivity during shared book reading predict better learning outcomes. However, it is unclear whether contingent responsivity from a digital book could provide similar support for children. The effects on story recall and engagement interacting with a digital book that responded contingently on children's vocalizations…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Recall (Psychology), Individual Differences
Contingent Responsivity in E-Books Modeled from Quality Adult-Child Interactions: Effects on Children's Learning and Attention
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Cassondra M. Eng; Anthony S. Tomasic; Erik D. Thiessen – Grantee Submission, 2019
Experiences of contingent responsivity during shared book reading predict better learning outcomes. However, it is unclear whether contingent responsivity from a digital book could provide similar support for children. The effects on story recall and engagement interacting with a digital book that responded contingently on children's vocalizations…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Recall (Psychology), Individual Differences
Investigating the Bilingual Advantage: The Impact of L2 Exposure on the Social and Cognitive Skills of Monolingually-Raised Children in Bilingual Education
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Chamorro, Gloria; Janke, Vikki – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Most research reporting that bilingual children exhibit enhanced cognitive skills and social awareness relative to their monolingual peers focusses on children raised and educated bilingually, making it difficult to pinpoint the degree of second language exposure necessary for such advantages to materialise. The current study measures the social…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students, Spanish
Language and Cognitive Predictors of Lexical Selection in Storytelling for Monolingual and Sequential Bilingual Children
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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
Measuring Behavioral Regulation in Four Societies
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Wanless, Shannon B.; McClelland, Megan M.; Acock, Alan C.; Ponitz, Claire C.; Son, Seung-Hee; Lan, Xuezhao; Morrison, Frederick J.; Chen, Jo-Lin; Chen, Fu-Mei; Lee, Kangyi; Sung, Miyoung; Li, Su – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The present study examined the psychometric properties of scores from a direct measure of behavioral regulation, the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders task (HTKS) with 3- to 6-year-old children in the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Specifically, we investigated (a) the nature and variability of HTKS scores, including relations to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Behavior Problems, Cross Cultural Studies