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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This study was designed to investigate the effects of age of onset and type of instruction on ultimate EFL attainment at the end of the period of normal schooling in Switzerland, measured in terms of written fluency, complexity, morphosyntactic accuracy, vocabulary size, and listening skills. Data were gathered from four groups of 18-year-old…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Predictor Variables, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
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Carew, Jean V. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1980
Investigates in two longitudinal, observational studies among 3-year-old children the extent to which early experience, caregiver intervention and language mastery activities are more predictive of IQ and other measures of intellectual competence than are child-initiated activities and nonlanguage-oriented experiences. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Experience, Family Environment, Intelligence Quotient
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Jaffe, Joseph; Beebe, Beatrice; Feldstein, Stanley; Crown, Cynthia L.; Jasnow, Michael D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Studied partner and site novelty for mother-infant, stranger-infant, and mother-stranger face-to-face interactions. Found that adult-infant vocal timing measures at age 4 months did predict attachment and cognition at age 12 months. Comparison of mother-infant and stranger-infant interactions suggested the dynamics of infants' early…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Audiotape Recordings, Child Language