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Akoglu, Gözde; Yagmur, Kutlay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
The interdependence between the first and second language of bilingual immigrant children has not received sufficient attention in research. Most studies concentrate on mainstream language skills of immigrant pupils. In some studies, the gaps in the language development of immigrant children are documented by comparing mainstream pupils with…
Descriptors: Turkish, Native Language, Immigrants, Bilingualism
Hudson, Judith A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study examined the relationship between characteristics of mothers' talk about future events and young children's ability to contribute to naturalistic conversations about future events. Results indicated that three maternal style factors were related to 2.5- and 4-year-olds' contributions: elaborative/advanced language, general and past…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Time
Lewis, Michael; Hurowitz, Laurie – 1977
This study was designed to test two alternate hypotheses regarding the meaning of increased lateral head movements in infants during experiments in which the mothers' voices were displaced from their faces. One interpretation is that the lateral looking responses of the infants are attributable to maturational effects on the infants' physiological…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior

Jipson, Jennifer L.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 2003
Two studies explored how mothers and preschoolers talk and reason about events in which biological and nonbiological objects change in size. Analysis of conversations indicated that although mothers discussed events primarily in domain-specific ways when using the term growth, they exhibited some domain blurring in explanations to preschoolers.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Change, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter; Bell, Silvia M.
Several sets of evidence are offered to support the hypothesis that cognitive and social development are intimately interrelated, and that mother-infant interaction influences both. A mother's prompt responsiveness to her baby's signals tends to foster the development of varied and clear modes of communication and thus the development of one facet…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Environmental Influences, Hypothesis Testing

Gelman, Susan A.; Coley, John D.; Rosengren, Karl S.; Hartman, Erin; Pappas, Athina – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1998
Explored how mothers convey information about category structure during naturalistic interactions. Videotaped reading-aloud sessions between mothers and toddlers; coded their interactions for explicit and implicit discussion of animal and artifact categories. Found that mothers provided a rich array of information beyond simple labeling routines,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed. – 1984
Most of the seven articles in this collection present research on the social development of young children. Specifically, "Issues in Socio-Emotional Development " (Kazuo Mikyake, Joseph Campos, and Jerome Kagan) and "Japanese vs. United States Comparison of Mother-Infant Interaction and Infant Development: A Review" (Shing-jen…
Descriptors: Adults, Attachment Behavior, Children, Cognitive Development
Lombard, Avima D. – 1981
Israel's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, a nationally administered home-based program of early childhood education, is discussed in this book. In addition to presenting information regarding the social conditions that necessitated development of the program, this book describes the theory and planning behind the program, its…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation
Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development