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Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh; Bruno Di Biase; Satomi Kawaguchi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
English is undoubtedly an important language for educational and socio-economic mobility in numerous countries including Malaysia. Regardless of its importance, studies to document English language acquisition among Malaysian children acquiring English in the local context remain scarce. This normative data is imperative for syllabus-designers,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preschool Children
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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Petersen, Douglas; Spencer, Trina; Hammer, Krista – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to describe differences in the narratives produced by 3-, 4-, and 5- year old Spanish-speaking (SS) children. Narrative productions of 104 typically developing children were collected using a story-retelling task and coded using the Index of Narrative Complexity. The results of this study indicate…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Personal Narratives, Story Telling
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Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Sze, Irene Nga-Lam – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Preschoolers' inhibitory control and early math skills were concurrently and longitudinally examined in 255 Chinese, African American, Dominican, and Mexican 4-year-olds in the United States. Inhibitory control at age 4, assessed with a peg-tapping task, was associated with early math skills at age 4 and predicted growth in such skills from age 4…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Predictor Variables, Predictive Validity