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Language Status at Age 3: Group and Individual Prediction from Vocabulary Comprehension in the Second Year
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Friend, Margaret; Smolak, Erin; Patrucco-Nanchen, Tamara; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Zesiger, Pascal – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The present research extends recent work on the prediction of preschool language skills by exploring prediction from decontextualized vocabulary comprehension. Vocabulary comprehension was a stronger predictor than parent-reported production, yielding a quadrupling of variance accounted for relative to prior studies. Parallel studies (Studies 1…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Vocabulary, Comprehension
Examining the Associations between Children's Receptive Language Skills and Developmental Domains in the United States and Turkey
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Guler Yildiz, Tulin; Gonen, Mubeccel; Ulker Erdem, Ayca; Garcia, Aileen; Raikes, Helen; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Burcak, Firdevs; Turan, Figen; Can Gul, Sadiye; Davis, Dawn – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examined the relations between receptive language development and other developmental domains of preschoolers from low-income families, through an inter-cultural perspective involving the United States and Turkey. A total of 471 children and their caregivers participated in Turkey, while 287 participated in the United States. Children's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Low Income
The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales: Measurement Invariance across Four Language Groups
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Gygi, Jasmin T.; Ledermann, Thomas; Grob, Alexander; Rudaz, Myriam; Hagmann-von Arx, Priska – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) measures general intelligence and its two main components, verbal and nonverbal intelligence, each comprising of two subtests. The RIAS has been recently standardized in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain. Using the standardization samples of the U.S. (n = 2,438), Danish (n = 983), German (n…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability
Brain Event-Related Potentials to Phoneme Contrasts and Their Correlation to Reading Skills in School-Age Children
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Hämäläinen, Jarmo; Landi, Nicole; Loberg, Otto; Lohvansuu, Kaisa; Pugh, Kenneth; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Development of reading skills has been shown to be tightly linked to phonological processing skills and to some extent to speech perception abilities. Although speech perception is also known to play a role in reading development, it is not clear which processes underlie this connection. Using event-related potentials (ERPs) we investigated the…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries, Phonemes, Reading Skills
Developing and Testing a Turkish Version of Torrance's Tests of Creative Thinking: A Study of Adults
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Aslan, A. Esra; Puccio, Gerard J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2006
The present study had two purposes. The first was to translate one of the most popular creativity measures in the West, the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, into Turkish and to check the equivalency of the Turkish version against the original English measure. The second, after developing an equivalent form of the TTCT in Turkish, was to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cross Cultural Studies, Creative Thinking, Comparative Analysis