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Direct linkGiulia Vettori; Alice Mercugliano; Lucia Bigozzi; Oriana Incognito – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Cross-sectional studies have shown the connections between oral language, reading, and writing skills, but there has been limited longitudinal research, especially in primary school. This study examined the relationships between oral narrative, reading, and writing skills in a longitudinal sample of 80 Italian-speaking primary school children…
Descriptors: Italian, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Thinking Skills
Liz Smeets – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates feature acquisition and feature reassembly associated with Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD). The article compares the acquisition of CLLD in second language (L2) Italian to L2 Romanian to examine effects of first language (L1) transfer, construction frequency and the type of interface involved (external vs. internal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Romance Languages, Syntax
Gandolfi, Elena; Usai, Maria Carmen; Traverso, Laura; Viterbori, Paola – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The study investigates whether Italian verbal inflectional morphology is associated with inhibitory control skills after controlling for receptive vocabulary and verbal working memory. A sample of Italian preschoolers aged 4;0 to 6;0 was assessed using a standardized inhibitory control task tapping two different inhibitory skills (response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Italian, Grammar
Alexandra Affranti; Valentina Tobia; Stephanie Bellocchi; Paola Bonifacci – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Many studies have explored how Language-Minority Bilingual Children (LMBC) read and comprehend, while the way they learn to spell and write has received less attention. This study aimed to assess a comprehensive profile of spelling and writing skills in LMBC, comparing performances of 4th and 5th grade bilingual (n = 74) and monolingual (n = 131)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Writing Ability, Grade 4
Roberta Onesimo; Elisabetta Sforza; Elizabeth Katherine Anna Triumbari; Francesco Proli; Chiara Leoni; Valentina Giorgio; Donato Rigante; Valentina Trevisan; Cristina De Rose; Eliza Maria Kuczynska; Antonella Cerchiari; Marika Pane; Eugenio Mercuri; Peter Belafsky; Giuseppe Zampino – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The Pediatric Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10) is a reliable and valid tool for rapid identification of dysphagia in patients aged 18 months to 18 years. Aims: To translate and adapt the PEDI-EAT-10 into the Italian language and evaluate its validity and reliability. Methods & Procedures: The translation and cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Physical Disabilities
Elena Gandolfi; Giovanna Diotallevi; Paola Viterbori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Inhibition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Ciribuco, Andrea – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article examines the impact that an arts project had on the relationship between a group of asylum seekers and the Italian town where they live. The project brought together local youth and asylum seekers to engage in dance workshops and video-making workshops. This article combines interviews with project participants and teachers with an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Dance, Art Activities
Slonimska, Anita; Özyürek, Asli; Capirci, Olga – Cognitive Science, 2022
Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also simultaneously. Recent research has shown that users of an established sign language such as LIS (Italian Sign Language) use simultaneous and iconic constructions as a modality-specific resource to…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Nichola Stuart; Stefania Zoia; Marina Biancotto; Anna L. Barnett – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
Handwriting is a useful skill through education, yet handwriting difficulties are common in students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), including Developmental Coordination Disorder. There are few practical tools to assess legibility, among these the Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS) shows good reliability and validity for 9- to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities
Download full textShaw, Leslie A.; Thompson, James R.; Lombardi, Marco; Croce, Luigi; Speziale, Roberta; Gomiero, Tiziano; Shogren, Karrie A. – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2022
The Supports Intensity Scale--Children's Version (SIS-C) was translated into Italian using a committee approach to translation. Latent modeling approaches enabled the leveraging of the large standardization sample from the U.S. (n = 4,015) to generate translation-specific norms from data collected in Italy (n = 435) for children and youth ranging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Translation, Social Support Groups
Ting, Yen-Ling Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
As increasingly more upper secondary schools mainstream bilingualism via an array of strategies, databases collecting students' appraisals of their bilingual experiences become invaluable for informing practice. This paper discusses how the ADiBE Interview Protocol was adapted to efficiently collect candid appraisals from 99 students attending a…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Language Attitudes
Mazzaggio, Greta; Shield, Aaron – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The language of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often characterized by difficulties with pronouns. The underlying reasons for such difficulties are still unclear. This study is the first to test the abilities of children with ASD who speak Italian, a language in which overt subject pronouns are optional but verbs obligatorily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Italian
Liang, Ziqin; Mazzeschi, Claudia; Delvecchio, Elisa – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Empathy is important for interpersonal communication, social emotion, and social cognitive abilities throughout the lifespan. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (EmQue-CA) in a sample of 472 Italian children and early adolescents aged 8-13 years.…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Children, Adolescents
M. Cangelosi; C. Barichello; T. Dijkstra; P. Palladino – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
We investigated the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the unfolding of vocabulary and text-comprehension skills in language minority bilingual children, who are educated exclusively in their L2. For comparison, a monolingual control group was also tested, consisting of children of the same age and schooling. We administered a synonyms task to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Vocabulary Development, Correlation, Elementary School Students
Spatial Ideologies on Official Bilingualism and Co-Located Schools in Finland and South Tyrol, Italy
Tuuli From; Verena Platzgummer; Petteri Laihonen; Fritjof Sahlström; Tamás Péter Szabó – Language and Education, 2024
In countries with several official languages, language separation often remains a structural principle in institutional education. Co-located schools, in which two autonomously administered schools with different languages of instruction share a physical space, may challenge this separation. Such schools have existed for a long time, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities, Bilingual Schools, Finno Ugric Languages
