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Direct linkCarolina Torrejon Capurro; Lindsey Moses; Paula Garces – Reading Teacher, 2024
As part of a large study aiming to understand how kindergarten children in Colombia used translanguaging during independent play, Paula (the teacher) along with Dr. Moses (lead researcher) co-designed a 6-week play-based intervention that included a variety of learning experiences such as partner reading, small-group reading, and supported play,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Kindergarten, Young Children
Ponguta, Liliana Angelica; Aragón, Carlos Andres; Varela, Lucero Ramirez; Moore, Kathryn; Hein, Sascha; Cerezo, Adrian – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
There is an urgent need to strengthen early childhood development and education in emergencies (ECDEiE) globally. Colombia has faced protracted and acute crises for decades. Also, the country has applied a unique approach to holistic and integrated ECDE policy formulation. We argue that these characteristics offer a valuable country-case to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Martínez-Sande, Paola Andrea; Pacheco, Kattia Cantillo; Martínez-González, Marina Begoña; Chajin, Leidylizeth Hernandez – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Psychosocial intervention programs are carried out in Latin American communities with socioeconomic disadvantage to improve their quality of life; few evaluations are carried out to measure their effectiveness. The study aimed to determine if intervention processes in vulnerable communities might favor the children's development. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Intervention, Cognitive Development
Marchesi, Álvaro – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
This article analyses the progresses and challenges in education in Latin America since the Salamanca World Conference on Special Needs Education. The main advances have been in the access to education of a greater number of students derived from a higher public expenditure. The challenges that still exist can be summed up through insufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Special Education, Special Needs Students
Posada, German; Trumbell, Jill; Noblega, Magaly; Plata, Sandra; Peña, Paola; Carbonell, Olga A.; Lu, Ting – Child Development, 2016
This study tested whether maternal sensitivity and child security are related during early childhood and whether such an association is found in different cultural and social contexts. Mother-child dyads (N = 237) from four different countries (Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States) were observed in naturalistic settings when children were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology)
Download full textIsabel, Borja-Alarcón; Astrid, Ramirez Valencia; Alfonso, López-Vega – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to report the findings of a research project, developed from the need to make contributions about the characteristics that emerge, when a three-year-old child and his caregiver carry reading activities out. By the use of recordings and students' artifacts, in order to collect data; and analyzing the information collected through…
Descriptors: Young Children, Caregivers, Reading, Case Studies
Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
Catano, Lorena; Barlow, Jessica A.; Moyna, Maria Irene – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
This study evaluates 39 different phonetic inventories of 16 Spanish-speaking children (ages 0;11 to 5;1) in terms of hierarchical complexity. Phonetic featural differences are considered in order to evaluate the proposed implicational hierarchy of Dinnsen et al.'s phonetic inventory typology for English. The children's phonetic inventories are…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonetics, Spanish Speaking, Language Acquisition
Castilla, Anny P.; Perez-Leroux, Ana T. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
This study examined the existence of an object omission stage and the interaction between object omissions and substitution errors in the early stages of the development of Spanish syntax. One hundred and three Spanish-speaking children from Colombia completed an elicitation task evaluating the production of direct object pronouns. Results…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Syntax, Spanish Speaking, Spanish
Puche-Navarro, Rebeca – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Two experiments examined pictorial humor as an unusual but legitimate way to approach the study of children's representational activity and the transition from implicit to explicit knowledge. In both experiments, the participants were 3- and 4-year-old children. Experiment 1 studied the understanding of two pictorial jokes using two conditions,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Humor, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Carrascal, Judith; Roy, Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1990
Teachers of French as a Second Language to young children in India and Colombia share class activities and teaching techniques that focus on common aspects of life and culture comprehensible to this age group. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, FLES, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedBejar, Isaac I. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1981
Effects of nutritional supplementation on physical development of malnourished children was analyzed by univariate and multivariate methods for the analysis of repeated measures. Results showed that the nutritional treatment was successful, but it was necessary to resort to the multivariate approach. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Peer reviewedKillen, Melanie; Ardila-Rey, Alicia; Barakkatz, Marlene; Wang, Pei-Lin – Early Education and Development, 2000
This study surveyed 160 preschool teachers in 4 countries regarding views of moral and social conflict resolution, autonomy and a group sense, and general aims of preschools. Findings revealed that all hold similar beliefs regarding intervention in children's conflicts and importance of autonomy in the classroom. Additionally, all viewed the…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries, Group Unity, Intervention
