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Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
This study investigated whether transitory and persistent poverty spells were associated with children's learning (literacy and numeracy scores) and executive function outcomes in Ghana. Children resided in the Greater Accra region (N = 2,154; 49% female; M[subscript age] = 5.2 years at wave-1) and were followed at four-time points over three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Correlation, Executive Function
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Imme Lammertink; Eliane Segers; Annette Scheper; Loes Wauters; Constance Vissers – Language Learning and Development, 2024
It has been proposed that an implicit learning deficit explains the difficulties with grammar commonly observed in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The present study further investigates this link in two ways. Firstly, we investigate whether kindergartners with DLD have more difficulties with preposition understanding and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Language Impairments, Foreign Countries
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Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study investigated whether transitory and persistent poverty spells were associated with children's learning (literacy and numeracy scores) and executive function outcomes in Ghana. Children resided in the Greater Accra region (N = 2,154; 49% female; M[subscript age] = 5.2 years at wave-1) and were followed at four-time points over three…
Descriptors: Poverty, Correlation, Executive Function, Learning Processes
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Sophia Rapti; Theodosios Sapounidis; Sokratis Tselegkaridis – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Recent developments in technology have introduced new tools, such as virtual reality, into the learning process. Although virtual reality appears to be a promising technology for education and has been adopted by a few schools worldwide, we still do not know students' and educators' opinions, preferences, and challenges with it, particularly in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Simulation, Preschool Teachers
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Dang, Xixi; Yang, Chunliang; Che, Mengying; Chen, Yinghe; Yu, Xiao – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Testing of previously studied information potentiates subsequent learning of new information, a phenomenon referred to as the "forward testing effect" (FTE). The current study aimed to investigate the developmental trajectory of the FTE and whether the reset-of-encoding process contributes to the FTE. Younger children, older children,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development, Adults
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Floyd, Sammy; Goldberg, Adele E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Many words are associated with more than a single meaning. Words are sometimes "ambiguous," applying to unrelated meanings, but the majority of frequent words are "polysemous" in that they apply to multiple "related" meanings. In a preregistered design that included 2 tasks, we tested adults' and 4.5- to 7-year-old…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Task Analysis, Correlation
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White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
Rubio, Fernando – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2022
It is said that children are amazing at acquiring their first language (L1); by the time they reach school age, they are using complex grammar and demonstrating a wide vocabulary. Even more impressive, these young learners might show up at school with two languages in their toolbox or add a second language (L2) with far less effort than older…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Age Differences
Jamie J. Jirout; Sierra Eisen; Zoe S. Robertson; Tanya M. Evans – Grantee Submission, 2022
Play is a powerful influence on children's learning and parents can provide opportunities to learn specific content by scaffolding children's play. Parent-child synchrony (i.e., harmony, reciprocity and responsiveness in interactions) is a component of parent-child interactions that is not well characterized in studies of play. We tested whether…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Executive Function
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Jeste, Shafali S.; Kirkham, Natasha; Senturk, Damla; Hasenstab, Kyle; Sugar, Catherine; Kupelian, Chloe; Baker, Elizabeth; Sanders, Andrew J.; Shimizu, Christina; Norona, Amanda; Paparella, Tanya; Freeman, Stephanny F. N.; Johnson, Scott P. – Developmental Science, 2015
Statistical learning is characterized by detection of regularities in one's environment without an awareness or intention to learn, and it may play a critical role in language and social behavior. Accordingly, in this study we investigated the electrophysiological correlates of visual statistical learning in young children with autism…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Visual Learning
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Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Loizou, Eleni; Papaevripidou, Marios – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physicality (actual and active touch of concrete material), as such, is a necessity for science experimentation learning at the kindergarten level. We compared the effects of student experimentation with Physical Manipulatives (PM) and Virtual Manipulatives (VM) on kindergarten students'…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Young Children, Kindergarten, Science Experiments
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Pagliaro, Claudia M.; Kritzer, Karen L. – Deafness and Education International, 2010
Using a multiple case-study design, this study compares the early learning behaviours of young deaf/hard-of-hearing (d/hh) children with high/low mathematics ability (as defined by test score on the Test of Early Mathematics Ability-3). Children's simultaneous use of multiple learning behaviours was also examined as were contributing adult…
Descriptors: Deafness, Learning Processes, Young Children, Nonverbal Ability
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Ethridge, Elizabeth A.; Branscomb, Kathryn R. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
Experiential learning has become an essential part of many educational settings from infancy through adulthood. While the effectiveness of active learning has been evaluated in youth and adult settings, few known studies have compared the learning processes of children and adults within the same project. This article contrasts the active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Cameron-Faulkner, Thea; Lieven, Elena; Theakston, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2007
The study investigates the development of English multiword negation, in particular the negation of zero marked verbs (e.g. "no sleep", "not see", "can't reach") from a usage-based perspective. The data was taken from a dense database consisting of the speech of an English-speaking child (Brian) aged 2;3-3;4 (MLU 2.05-3.1) and his mother. The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Mothers, Verbs, Language Usage
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Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Second-grade children were explicitly supplied with zero, one, two, or three components of information to specify the respective contributions of various sources and amounts of acquired strategy-utility information. Metacognitive knowledge was evidenced only when the training regiment included the complete set of critical metacognitive components.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Information Utilization
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