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Community Violence and Early Childhood Language Development: The Moderating Role of Maternal Efficacy and Satisfaction
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Alejandra Abufhele; Agustina Laurito – Child Development, 2024
This paper estimates the acute effect of community-level homicides on early childhood language development and explores the moderating role of maternal efficacy and satisfaction in Chile. It uses data from the 2017 wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey of Chilean Children (N = 1194, M[subscript age]: 52.8 months, 52% girls). Children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Early Experience
Verbal and Non-Verbal Analogical Reasoning in the Emergent Literacy Period: An Exploratory Analysis of the Influence of AR Modality on Listening Comprehension, Phonological Awareness and Lexical Skills (Razonamiento analógico verbal y no verbal en el período de alfabetización emergente: un análisis exploratorio de la influencia de modalidad de AR sobre la comprensión auditiva, la conciencia fonológica y las habilidades léxicas)
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Norambuena, Yeniè S.; Riffo, Bernardo E.; Sáez, Katia L. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Despite the important role assigned to analogical reasoning (AR) in cognition and language, the relationship between this ability and language skills in the emergent literacy period has not been sufficiently studied, especially in Spanish speakers. To explore this link, we examined two modalities of AR (verbal and non-verbal) as predictors of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children
Proposed Standards for Assessing Language Skills of Adolescent Students
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Lagos-Luciano, Juan; Andruske, Cynthia Lee; Cossio-Bolaños, Marco; Sulla-Torres, Jose; Idme, Leonel Coyla; Luarte-Rocha, Cristian; Gómez-Campos, Rossana – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The aim of the study was to validate an instrument and propose standards to measure the language skills of school adolescents. 2270 adolescents (1134 males and 1136 females) in the region of Maule (Chile) was studied. The age range is between 10 to 18 years. The validated instrument has three categories (verbal, paralinguistic and non-verbal) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Adolescents, Verbal Ability
Socio-Economic Status Affects Sentence Repetition, but Not Non-Word Repetition, in Chilean Preschoolers
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Balladares, Jaime; Marshall, Chloë; Griffiths, Yvonne – First Language, 2016
Sentence repetition and non-word repetition tests are widely used measures of language processing which are sensitive to language ability. Surprisingly little previous work has investigated whether children's socio-economic status (SES) affects their sentence and non-word repetition accuracy. This study investigates sentence and non-word…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Monolingualism