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Butler, Yuko Goto; Zeng, Wei – Education 3-13, 2015
In response to the growing interest in evaluating young learners' foreign language (FL) performance, this study aims to deepen our understanding of young learners' developmental differences in interaction during task-based paired-language assessments. To examine age effects separately from the effect of general language proficiency, we analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Perdijk, Kors; Schreuder, Robert; Baayen, R. Harald; Verhoeven, Ludo – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Dutch children, from the second and fourth grade of primary school, were each given a visual lexical decision test on 210 Dutch monomorphemic words. After removing words not recognized by a majority of the younger group, (lexical) decisions were analysed by mixed-model regression methods to see whether morphological Family Size influenced decision…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 2, Cognitive Processes, Indo European Languages