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A Meta-Analysis on the Correlations between Statistical Learning, Language, and Reading Outcomes
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Ren, Jinglei; Wang, Min; Arciuli, Joanne – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this meta-analytic review is to investigate the relation between statistical learning (SL) and language-related outcomes, and between SL and reading-related outcomes. A comprehensive search of peer-reviewed published research resulted in 42 articles with 53 independent samples and 201 reported effect sizes (Pearson's r). Results of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Reading Skills, Outcomes of Education
Effects of Learning with Gesture on Children's Understanding of a New Language Concept
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Wakefield, Elizabeth M.; James, Karin H. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Asking children to gesture while being taught a concept facilitates their learning. Here, we investigated whether children benefitted equally from producing gestures that reflected speech (speech-gesture matches) versus gestures that complemented speech (speech-gesture mismatches), when learning the concept of palindromes. As in previous studies,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication, Verbal Communication, Language Acquisition
Free Recall and Clustering at Four Age Levels: Effects of Learning to Learn and Presentation Method
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Moely, Barbara E.; Shapiro, S. I. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
From Children's Hands to Adults' Ears: Gesture's Role in the Learning Process.
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Singer, Melissa A. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Asked eight adults to instruct third- and fourth-graders individually in a math problem. Found that the adults offered more variable instruction to children who produced gesture-speech mismatches than to children with no mismatches--more types of instructional strategies and more instructions that contained two different strategies, one in speech…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Body Language, Children, Interpersonal Communication