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"How Do I Remember when I Got My Dog?" The Structure and Development of Children's Metamemory
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Fritz, Kristina; Howie, Pauline; Kleitman, Sabina – Metacognition and Learning, 2010
Kreutzer et al.'s (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 40(1):1-60, 1975) metamemory interview has been widely used in children's metamemory literature, yet the psychometric properties of the measure have yet to be reported, and the format and language of some subtests may pose problems for young children. Researchers often…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Young Children, Metacognition, Factor Analysis
Long-Term Relationships among Early First Language Skills, Second Language Aptitude, Second Language Affect, and Later Second Language Proficiency
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Fifty-four students were followed over 10 years beginning in first grade to determine best predictors of oral and written second language (L2) proficiency. Predictor variables included measures of first language (L1) skill administered in first through fifth grades, L1 academic aptitude, L2 aptitude (Modern Language Aptitude Test), and L2 affect…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Predictor Variables, Aptitude Tests, Decoding (Reading)
Native Language Predictors of Foreign Language Proficiency and Foreign Language Aptitude
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Sparks, Richard L; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy; Javorsky, James – Annals of Dyslexia, 2006
Fifty-four students were tested at specific time intervals over 10 years to determine best native language (NL) predictors of oral and written foreign language (FL) proficiency and FL aptitude. All participants completed two years of Spanish, French, or German. Each was administered measures of NL literacy, oral language, and cognitive ability in…
Descriptors: Written Language, Intervals, Cognitive Ability, Oral Language
The Ordering of Milestones in Language Development for Children from 1 to 6 Years of Age
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Luinge, Margreet R.; Post, Wendy J.; Wit, Hero P.; Goorhuis-Brouwer, Sieneke M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: To scale language milestones in a group of 527 children to provide an instrument for screening language development. Procedure: The questionnaire regarding these milestones was completed by parental report. It was evaluated whether the scaled milestones satisfied the assumptions of the Mokken item response model. Results: The scalability…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Measures (Individuals)