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Cordeiro, Carolina; Magalhães, Sofia; Nunes, Andreia; Olive, Thierry; Castro, São Luís; Limpo, Teresa – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Writing is a complex task that requires the activation and coordination of several processes. In addition to the research on the domain-specific factors that contribute to school achievement, there is an increasing interest on general variables, such as mindfulness. Here, we aimed to test the contribution of middle-grade students' trait…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Achievement, Prediction, Executive Function
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Martins, Margarida Alves; Salvador, Liliana; Albuquerque, Ana; Silva, Cristina – Educational Psychology, 2016
Our aim was to assess the impact of an invented spelling programme conducted in small groups on children's written language acquisition in Portuguese. We expected the experimental group to have better post-test results than the control group in spelling and reading. Participants were 160 preschool-age children who were randomly divided into an…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Written Language, Language Acquisition
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Engel de Abreu, Pascale M. J.; Baldassi, Martine; Puglisi, Marina L.; Befi-Lopes, Debora M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors explored the impact of test language and cultural status on vocabulary and working memory performance in multilingual language-minority children. Method: Twenty 7-year-old Portuguese-speaking immigrant children living in Luxembourg completed several assessments of first (L1)- and second-language (L2) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory