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Weiland, Christina; Barata, M. Clara; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Despite consensus in the developmental literature regarding the role of executive function (EF) skills in supporting the development of language skills during the preschool years, we know relatively little about the associations between EF skills, including all EF components, and vocabulary skills among preschool-aged children. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Role, Executive Function, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
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Spere, Katherine A.; Schmidt, Louis A.; Theall-Honey, Laura A.; Martin-Chang, Sandra – Infant and Child Development, 2004
Although shy children speak less in social situations, the extent to which their language skills fall behind those of their more outgoing peers remains unclear. We selected 22 temperamentally shy and 22 non-shy children from a larger group of 400 4-year-old children who were prescreened for temperamental shyness by maternal report, using the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Language Skills, Expressive Language, Shyness