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Cepik, Saban; Sarandi, Hedayat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
This study examines the interaction effect of age in L2 attainment. It explores whether success in foreign language learning at early childhood grades varies depending on age. It also addresses the beliefs of foreign language teachers regarding the variables under review. Eighty-three 11 year-old language learners who started learning English at…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Lüken, Miriam M. – PNA, 2012
I analyse low and high achieving children's competences regarding pattern and structure at the beginning of formal schooling comparatively. The aim is to evaluate the range of school starters' early structure sense. The results suggest overall high pre-instructional competences which, however, differ strongly between the mathematical high and low…
Descriptors: Competence, Low Achievement, High Achievement, Mathematical Aptitude
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Schwartz, Mila; Share, David L.; Leikin, Mark; Kozminsky, Ely – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
In a previous study [Schwartz et al. (2005). "Written Language and Literacy," 8, 179-207] we showed that early literacy in Russian (L1) facilitated decoding acquisition in Hebrew (L2) among Russian-Hebrew first graders. The present study examined two alternative explanations for this finding. The first account concerns the general…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonological Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Writing Skills