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McElwain, Nancy L.; Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Wu, Xiaoying; Dyer, W. Justin – Child Development, 2008
This study identified mechanisms through which child-mother attachment security at 36 months was associated with mother- and teacher-reported friendship quality at 3rd grade. Data from a subsample of 1,071 children (536 boys) participating in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Child Health, Attachment Behavior
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Bruno, Jennifer L.; Manis, Franklin R.; Keating, Patricia; Sperling, Anne J.; Nakamoto, Jonathan; Seidenberg, Mark S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
The integrity of phonological representation/processing in dyslexic children was explored with a gating task in which children listened to successively longer segments (gates) of a word. At each gate, the task was to decide what the entire word was. Responses were scored for overall accuracy as well as the children's sensitivity to coarticulation…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Language Aptitude, Dyslexia, Phonology
Galuszka, Peter – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
It might sound like a no-brainer that being bilingual or multilingual helps students planning engineering and just about any other career. But it is certainly true and is becoming more important as the economies of nations become more intertwined. What's more, being able to go beyond mere language ability and understand cultural distinctions are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Aptitude, Mexicans
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Murphy, M. M.; Abbeduto, L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Verbal perseveration (i.e. excessive self-repetition) is a characteristic of male individuals with fragile X syndrome; however, little is known about its occurrence among females or its underlying causes. This project examined the relationship between perseveration and (1) gender, (2) cognitive and linguistic ability, and (3) language…
Descriptors: Narration, Language Aptitude, Expressive Language, Gender Differences
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Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Watt, Helen J.; Line, E. A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: The few studies that have tracked children with developmental language disorder to adulthood have found that these individuals experience considerable difficulties with psychosocial adjustment (for example, academic, vocational and social aptitude). Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Children, Young Adults
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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)
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Brown, Lorraine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2008
This article explores the incidence of stress in international students in relation to the requirements of an international master's programme. The data presented here were taken from a doctoral ethnographic study of the adaptation of international postgraduate students to life in the United Kingdom, involving individual interviews with 13…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Incidence, Ethnography, Cultural Differences
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Jarmulowicz, Linda; Taran, Valentina L.; Hay, Sarah E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: This study examined relationships between 3rd graders' metalinguistic skills (phonological and morphological awareness), reading skills (decoding and word identification), and accurate stress production in derived words with stress-changing suffixes. Method: Seventy-six typically developing 3rd-grade children (M = 8;8[years;months])…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Metalinguistics, Oral Language, Decoding (Reading)
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Phillipson, Sivanes – Educational Psychology, 2009
Vygotsky speculated that parents play an important role in the intellectual development of their children, and that this role includes the transfer of expectations related to their children's academic achievement. Consequently, different parents can produce different contexts of academic achievement for their children. The participants were 215…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Aspiration, Elementary School Students
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Wetherell, Danielle; Botting, Nicola; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
There is a debate about whether the language of children with primary language disorders and normal cognitive levels is qualitatively different from those with language impairments who have low or borderline non-verbal IQ (NVIQ). As children reach adolescence, this distinction may be even harder to ascertain, especially in naturalistic settings.…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Adolescents, Standardized Tests, Intelligence Quotient
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Estes, Katharine Graf; Evans, Julia L.; Else-Quest, Nicole M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: This study presents a meta-analysis of the difference in nonword repetition performance between children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The authors investigated variability in the effect sizes (i.e., the magnitude of the difference between children with and without SLI) across studies and its relation to several…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Effect Size, Language Impairments, Language Aptitude
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Remine, Maria D.; Care, Esther; Brown, P. Margaret – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
The internal use of language during problem solving is considered to play a key role in executive functioning. This role provides a means for self-reflection and self-questioning during the formation of rules and plans and a capacity to control and monitor behavior during problem-solving activity. Given that increasingly sophisticated language is…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Deafness, Familiarity, Standardized Tests
Renzulli, Joseph S.; Siegle, Del; Reis, Sally M.; Gavin, M. Katherine; Sytsma Reed, Rachael E. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2009
Teacher rating scales have been used widely throughout the United States as part of a comprehensive plan for identifying potentially gifted and talented students. The Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics for Superior Students (SRBCSS) are among the most frequently used teacher rating scales to assess the characteristics of and nominate…
Descriptors: Gifted, Teacher Evaluation, Talent, Factor Structure
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Lindsay, Geoff; Dockrell, Julie E.; Strand, Steve – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the stability of behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) in children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLD), and the relationship between BESD and the language ability. Methods: A sample of children with SSLD were assessed for BESD at ages 8, 10 and 12 years by both…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Aptitude, Longitudinal Studies, Behavior Problems
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Milligan, Karen; Astington, Janet Wilde; Dack, Lisa Ain – Child Development, 2007
Numerous studies show that children's language ability is related to false-belief understanding. However, there is considerable variation in the size of the correlation reported. Using data from 104 studies (N=8,891), this meta-analysis determines the strength of the relation in children under age 7 and examines moderators that may account for the…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Cognitive Development, Meta Analysis, Child Language
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