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Huseyin Kyuchuk; Anar Fazylzhanova; Madina Abayeva; Aliya Nazarova; Quwatbek Duysen; Aidana Makhambetova; Shakhlo Kazakbayeva; Talshyn Chukayeva; Jill de Villiers – Intercultural Education, 2025
The research report describes the ability of Kazakh preschool children to tell narratives relating to mental states, and the connection with theory of mind tasks about false beliefs. Three groups of preschool children (N = 29; 3-, 4-, and 5- year-olds) from the city of Almaty were tested in the Kazakh language. The results show very high…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Preschool Children
Ukrainetz, Teresa A., Ed. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2015
"School-Age Language Intervention: Evidence-based Practices" explains how to teach the language and literacy skills, strategies, and underlying processes needed for educational success. This book brings together an array of experts to provide the latest practical and evidence-based guidance to school speech-language pathologists.…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Language Acquisition, Intervention
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Sperry, Linda L.; Sperry, Douglas E. – Cognitive Development, 1996
Describes an ethnographic study of African American toddlers and families that focused on children's productive competence in naturally occurring narrativelike conversation. Examines emergence of narrative competence; posits definition incorporating minimal requirements for child participation within the fundamental essence of narrative structure.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Ethnography
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Stenning, Keith; Michell, Lynn – Discourse Processes, 1985
Reports the results of a study showing that one stylistic feature, the inclusion of connectives other than "and/then" is a good predictor of explanation in five- to ten-year-olds, but a straightforward lack of linguistic resources is not necessarily what limits older children's achievement of explanatory narrative. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Perron, John D. – 1977
Written syntactic complexity is considered in relation to the four modes of discourse (argumentation, exposition, narration, and description). In a study of 153 children at three ability ranges within each of three grade levels (three, four, and five), syntactic complexity was found to differ significantly across the modes. The range of syntactic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Writing, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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Vion, Monique; Colas, Annie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
French-speaking children and adults heard silent comic-strip stories that differed by frame display mode, explicitness of the links between depicted events, and whether the topic changed on the last frame. Subjects' use of referents for the last frame indicated that manipulation of context was a good means of assessing speakers' acquisition of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Hickmann, Maya; And Others – 1989
A study examined the development of discourse cohesion in first language acquisition within a functional and cross-linguistic perspective. The analyses focused on how children introduce new referents in discourse across four languages: English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. The data base consists of narratives produced by children between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Coherence