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McAlister, Anna; Peterson, Candida C. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study assessed the theory of mind (ToM) and executive functioning (EF) abilities of 124 typically developing preschool children aged 3 to 5 years in relation to whether or not they had a child-aged sibling (i.e. a child aged 1 to 12 years) at home with whom to play and converse. On a ToM battery that included tests of false belief,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Siblings, Preschool Children, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Umek, Ljubica Marjanovic; Kranjc, Simona; Fekonja, Urska; Bajc, Katja – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Studies in the area of developmental psychology--especially those carried out in the past thirty years--show that preschool quality, both at the structural and process levels, in combination with the quality of the family environment influences various areas of children's development and learning. The goal of this study is to determine the effect…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Developmental Psychology, Family Environment, Language Acquisition
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Manfra, Louis; Winsler, Adam – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
The present study explored: (a) preschool children's awareness of their own talking and private speech (speech directed to the self); (b) differences in age, speech use, language ability, and mentalizing abilities between children with awareness and those without; and (c) children's beliefs and attitudes about private speech. Fifty-one children…
Descriptors: Attention, Preschool Children, Expressive Language, Language Skills
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Holmes, Kathleen M.; Holmes, David W. – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Reports research on the communicative behavior of a hearing child whose parents communicated with him, from birth, in both signs and words. The child's expressive ability accelerated in both modalities and this is possibly attributable to the addition of the signed component. (PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Schulz, Renate A. – Modern Language Journal, 1991
Based on current second-language acquisition theory and research, it is proposed that curriculum planning and teaching activities be guided by three issues: supplying students with optimum comprehensible input; providing interaction in real communicative contexts; and increasing motivation to seek additional input and interactive opportunities.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, Learning Theories
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Skehan, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
A review of how second-language acquisition research accounts for individual differences focuses on research on aptitude, motivation, learning strategies, and learning styles and discusses such conceptual and methodological issues as data quantification, points of contact between variables, the multicausal nature of language learning, hypothesis…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Language Aptitude, Language Research
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Widdowson, H. G. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Several problematic issues in second-language teaching and testing are discussed, including artificial distinctions made between the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and appropriate usage in each, the relationship of language skills and language ability, and the distinction between language usage and language use. (MSE)
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Skills, Language Tests, Language Usage
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Francis, Norbert – Language Learning, 2005
Childhood bilingualism may develop toward a steady state of balanced competence in 2 languages or toward an imbalanced competence in which one of the child's languages begins to undergo attrition or early stabilization. In child second language learning an analogous distinction is often drawn between additive and subtractive bilingualism. This…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Skill Attrition, Language Aptitude, Language Acquisition
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Kiss, Csilla; Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning, 2005
This study aimed to develop, pilot, and validate an aptitude test for Hungarian learners of English. A literature review on the construct and tests of aptitude is followed by two parts: a pilot phase on the development of a new aptitude test and a main study involving 419 12-year-old children in 10 schools. Data were collected on the aptitude…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Achievement Tests, English (Second Language)
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Costino, Kimberly A.; Hyon, Sunny – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2007
This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary study by an L1 compositionist and an applied linguist investigating interrelationships among university basic writing students' responses to linguistic identity labels, their residency statuses, and their preferences for mainstream or multilingual composition. Previous L2 writing research has suggested…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Multilingualism, Language Aptitude, Basic Writing
Davidson, Fred – 1995
This study examined initial evidence of changes in fit to a unidimensional model for some language tests at multiple ability levels. Seven data sets were analyzed using the first phase of exploratory factor analysis: principal component eigenvalue extraction. Each data set is analyzed at varying n-sizes: whole group; random subsample; and five…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Barnwell, David – 1992
A discussion of the utility of research on language aptitude and learning style begins by examining the concept of language aptitude and the controversy surrounding it, which focuses on the nature of language aptitude, what characterizes it, and its significance. The research reviewed dates back to the 1920s. Tests used to assess aptitude are then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational History, Language Aptitude, Language Research
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Cloos, Robert I. – Foreign Language Annals, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Language Aptitude, Language Tests
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Ludwig, Jeannette – Modern Language Journal, 1982
Discusses student communication in a second language in terms of comprehensibility, irritation, acceptability, communicative strategies, the personality of the second-language speaker, and the differences in perception of the communication by native speakers and nonnative speakers, who are teachers of the language. Recommendations for classroom…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language), Grammatical Acceptability
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Curtin, Constance; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1983
A study was undertaken of the predictive validity of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery at a university high school. Correlations of foreign language final grades and total scores on the Pimsleur battery are presented. Reliance on the battery score as a simple predictor of foreign language achievement is not recommended. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), High School Students, Language Aptitude
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