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Walk, Anne; Matsuo, Hisako; Giovanoni, Alex – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2015
The aim of the present study is to explore a variety of cognitive and social variables which are most relevant to children's linguistic success in an educational setting. The study examines kindergarten English language outcomes in classrooms containing monolingual English speaking children and bilingual children who speak English and one other…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism
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Schrauf, Robert W.; Sanchez, Julia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The "working emotion vocabulary" typically shows a preponderance of words for negative emotions (50%) over positive (30%) and neutral (20%) emotions. The theory of affect-as-information suggests that negative emotions signal problems or threat in the environment and are accompanied by detailed and systematic cognitive processing, while…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Contrastive Linguistics