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Download full textHansen, Jacqueline; Stansfield, Charles – 1980
Psychological literature on field independence shows that the field independent individual possesses enhanced cognitive restructuring abilities, while the field dependent individual possesses interpersonal and social skills. It was hypothesized that field independence would be related to the acquisition of linguistic competence, and that field…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedGenishi, Celia – Theory into Practice, 1981
Researchers from several disciplines have contributed to the realization that context or social situation varies in regard to a child's language acquisition. Children acquire both linguistic competence, the unconscious understanding of grammatical rules, and communicative competence, the understanding that language is used differently in different…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Context
