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Direct linkHagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Language Acquisition
Hagen, Åste M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the current study is to determine what language activities Norwegian preschool children took part in, and to examine whether these language activities predict children's language comprehension. We tested children (n = 134) with language measures at age 4/5 and age 5/6 and interviewed their teachers (n = 71) about the kinds of language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedElardo, Richard; And Others – Child Development, 1977
The home environments of 74 infants were assessed when the infants were 6 and 24 months old. At three years of age their language development was measured. Results demonstrated that it is possible to specify some of the parameters of early experience related to certain aspects of language development. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Early Experience, Family Environment, Infants, Language Acquisition
Mages, Wendy Karen – Review of Educational Research, 2008
This systematic review of the literature synthesizes research from a number of disciplines and provides a succinct distillation of the methods and measures used to study the impact of creative drama on the language development of young children. An analysis of the merits and limitations of the reviewed studies reveals a number of methodological…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatics, Young Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedAlston, Herbert L.; Wakefield, James A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
TPA is conceptualized in terms of channels, processes, and levels. This study investigates the relationship between the two levels: the representational level and the automatic level. It concludes they are highly related in auditory-vocal channel but not in visual motor channel. (Author/HMV)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Correlation, Language Ability
Kavale, Kenneth – Exceptional Child, 1982
A study investigated the differential effects of psycholinguistic training programs on Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) scores obtained by educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, and culturally-economically disadvantaged preschool and elementary students. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Preschool Education
Girbau, Dolors; Schwartz, Richard G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: A number of previous studies have revealed that children with Specific Language Impairment have limitations in Phonological Working Memory as revealed by a task that requires them to repeat non-words of increasing syllable length. However, most published studies have used non-words that are phonotactically English. Aims: The purpose…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Memory, Syllables, Spanish Speaking
Glovsky, Leon – Training Sch Bull, 1970
Descriptors: Aphasia, Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
Mittler, P.; Ward, J. – Brit J Educ Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Cochrane, Kathleen J.; And Others – Slow Learning Child, 1972
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Educational Diagnosis, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDoughtie, Eugene; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Child Language, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Language Ability
Waddell, Kathleen J.; Cahoon, Delwin D. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition, Measurement Instruments
Download full textHayes, Mabel E.; Dembo, Myron H. – 1970
This study attempted to develop a diagnostic-prescriptive curriculum program to improve the school readiness of disadvantaged preschoolers. The language development patterns of 32 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were diagnosed by use of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). Teachers were trained to use this information to provide an…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Experimental Programs
Peer reviewedSchmitt, John F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Examined was the relationship between the presence of articulation disorders and performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) with 30 elementary grade children with either mild-moderate or moderate-severe articulation disorders. (DB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
Byrne, Margaret C. – 1967
A compensatory language program was administered to 13 children, considered, for the most part, as culturally disadvantaged and linguistically deficient. These 13 children comprised the experimental group, while 12 other children were used as a control group. The ages of the children ranged from 3 years, 3 months to 5 years, 10 months. The average…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Control Groups, Disadvantaged, Language Ability
