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Samaragungavan, Ala; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1996
Study reports data on the acquisition of knowledge about astronomy in children from India, and the cosmological models they construct. Found that Indian children's cosmologies honor a variety of implicit assumptions governing the construction of initial cosmological models and that folk models are also incorporated to provide a psychologically…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Liberman, Kenneth – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1995
Studies intercultural communication in a Buddhist monastic university in India. Oral communication involves an ensemble of speakers and hearers; an interpersonal relationship that underlies the motivation and effort among speakers and hearers is required for true dialog. Understanding meanings is sometimes subordinate to interactional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Buddhism, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Bulcock, Jeffrey W.; And Others – 1976
Using data collected by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), the authors of this study examined the reading achievement of 14-year-old boys in India and England. They sought to determine the factors involved in the academic achievement of these boys in the natural sciences. Factors studied, in addition…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Education, Content Area Reading
Kristiansen, Irene – 1990
A study analyzed the relationship between foreign language learning and four variables, including: nonverbal intelligence, conceptual level, mother tongue, and mathematics. The aim of the study was to investigate whether the same mental processes are involved in poor and good language learning, regardless of the learner's mother tongue. The study…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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