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Direct linkEngel, Pascale Marguerite Josiane; Santos, Flavia Heloisa; Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This study evaluated the impact of socioeconomic factors on children's performance on tests of working memory and vocabulary. Method: Twenty Brazilian children, aged 6 and 7 years, from low-income families, completed tests of working memory (verbal short-term memory and verbal complex span) and vocabulary (expressive and receptive). A…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Low Income, Short Term Memory, Socioeconomic Influences
Thompson, Amy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Bilingualism (Sanz, 2000), motivation (Pintrich, 1989), and language aptitude (Grigorenko, Sternberg, and Ehrman, 2000) are crucial individual differences that contribute to successful adult language learning. Since Gardner's (1985) seminal work on motivation, many studies have shown that motivation is dynamic and that it affects language…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Multilingualism, Learning Motivation, Discriminant Analysis
