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Cowes, Ely Ann; Santelices, María Pía – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Theory of mind (ToM) allows people to understand their own and others' behaviour, crediting it with intentions, desires and beliefs. In the case of parenting, maternal reflective function unfolds within child-caregiver interactions, and previous studies have pointed out this variable as necessary for positive care. In the present study we sought…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Stress Variables, Mothers
Markovits Rojas, Jennifer Rosanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Study 1: The present work examined the connection between language and conceptual development, investigating whether false-belief reasoning (FBR) and source-monitoring ability (SMA) abilities within the theory of mind (ToM) framework constrained the comprehension of semantic and pragmatic knowledge (evidential scalar implicatures) encoded in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Indian Languages, Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries
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Cancino, Marco; Tomicic, Nedjelka – TESL-EJ, 2023
Developing second/foreign language (L2) comprehension skills can represent a challenging endeavor for learners with autism spectrum condition (ASC) because their social and verbal cognition may be impaired in terms of abstract reasoning, organizing, and retelling events, inferring intentions, and identifying emotions contained in a text. Thus, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Mata López, Cecil; Santelices Álvarez, María Pía; Vergés Gómez, Alvaro – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Caregivers' mentalization has gained importance in recent years, but most studies only include parental figures. Given empirical evidence showing the importance of educators in the development of preschoolers, this paper aims to assess how the mentalization and stress levels of parents and educational staff are related to attachment, ToM and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Preschool Teachers, Child Development
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Strasser, Katherine; del Río, Francisca – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
Recent studies have revealed that preschoolers' story comprehension is influenced by several basic as well as complex cognitive and linguistic processes. Among the abilities known to be relevant for young children's understanding of stories are the size of their vocabulary, their inference-making ability, and their working memory. In this study,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Comprehension, Theory of Mind, Attention Control