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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Language ability"”.
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Deaf Children's Developing Sign Bilingualism: Dimensions Of Language Ability, Use And Awareness
… developing bilingualism in British Sign Language and English (sign bilingualism). Sign bilingualism differs from bilingualism in two spoken languages in that the two languages are differently perceived and produced. This thesis explores individual sign bilingualism focusing on ways in …
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The relationship between foreign language ability and achievement in other school subjects
… was to examine the relationship between the ability to learn a foreign language and abilities in other school subjects at the high school level. The sample included 134 tenth grade students recruited through their English classes. Foreign language ability was measured by an Artificial …
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The Influence of Linguistic Structure on Memory Span: Repetition Tasks as a Measure of Language Ability
… were similar between age groups and across languages. Each linguistic factor had a significant effect on short-term memory span. The presence of non-words and syntactic violations dramatically reduced memory span, while semantic implausibility and the removal of sentence prosody played a …
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A Comparison of Sensory Aphasic, Expressive Aphasic, and Deaf Children Onthe Illinois Test of Language Ability
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An investigation into hemispheric lateralisation of different acoustic rates and its relationship with language ability during infancy
Successful language development is dependent on the capacity to process segmental and suprasegmental phonology. Infants have a lateralised right hemisphere response to suprasegmental changes in speech from birth and a bilateral response to segmental changes. A shift occurs by ~12 months old whereby …
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Language Ability and Social Withdrawal: Ratings of English Language Learning Children's Withdrawn Behavior in Native and Nonnative Language Contexts
… investigations of withdrawn behavior in English language learning (ELL) children. Children with communication difficulties are known to have increased levels of withdrawn behavior. Withdrawn behavior, particularly shyness, has been associated with negative developmental outcomes. The purpose of …
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The Effect of Language Ability of Internalizing Students on Improvement in Strong Kids: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for Students in Grades 4-8
This study assessed the influence of language on the ability of children identified as being at risk for internalizing behavior disorders to successfully participate in a social skills intervention program. Fourth and fifth grade students participated in Strong Kids: A Social and Emotional Learning …
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The relationship of language and performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)
… was to investigate the relationship between language ability and neuropsychological performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS). Language ability was measured as naming ability and verbal fluency via the Boston Naming Test, Second Edition …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Morphosyntactic Performance Based on Spanish-English Bilingual Exposure and Usage
This study examines the interaction between language experience and Spanish morphosyntactic development using longitudinal data of Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). Specifically, this study explores how language …
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Home Literacy Environment, the Quality of Mother-Child Book Reading Interactions, and Taiwanese Children's Early Literacy Development
… development including the children's receptive language ability (as measured by the Chinese version of PPVT_R), the children's emergent reading behaviors (as assessed in a solo reading task), and children's print concepts (as assessed using a portion of Clay's (1982) Concepts about Print Test). …
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Language Development and Verbal Encoding: Implications for Individual Differences in Short-Term Memory in 3-Year-Olds
There is evidence that language ability is related to a number of cognitive processes, including memory. This study used EEG to investigate the extent to which verbal encoding strategies account for individual differences in short-term recognition memory performance in 44 3-year-olds. As …
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Nondysphoric Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Abilities in Healthy Older Adults
… Cognitive functions such as processing speed, language ability, memory, and executive functions have been found to be affected in older adults with depression. However, there is limited research focused on the effects of minimal or mild depressive symptoms in older adults who do not meet …
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Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start
… both child working memory skill and receptive language ability, and high levels of maternal depressive symptomology were found to predict child social skills. In addition, exploratory analyses were conducted to examine gender differences in the relations between variables when girls and boys …
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Whole-exome sequencing variant prioritization in individuals with tense and agreement marking deficit— a clinical marker of specific language impairment
Specific language impairment (SLI) has been studied at the genetic level for over 25 years, with varied assessments of language ability defining the SLI phenotype across studies. In the current study, the SLI phenotype is defined by performance on a sensitive and specific measure of grammar …
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Language Skills, Oral Narrative Production, and Executive Functions of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
<p>This study assessed the language skills, oral narrative abilities, and executive functions (EFs) of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and normal hearing (NH), and examined the differences between two groups as well as the relationships between oral narrative production and EFs.</p> …
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Working memory, language, motivation and children's early writing: A three‐year longitudinal study
… and to ascertain whether working memory, language ability or motivation to write underlined children's early attempts to learn how to write. Working memory, language ability and the emergent writing skills of 30 Irish children were tested, in a longitudinal study over a three year period, …
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The influence of maternal sensitivity and maternal stimulation on later development of executive functioning via structural equation modeling
… directly or indirectly by influencing a child's language or attentional abilities. This study attempted to model these relationships using archival data from phase I and phase II from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Structural equation modeling was used with data …
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The Role of Parent Responsiveness and Vocal Complexity in Expressive Language Outcome: Intervention Effects in Toddlers at Risk for ASD and Language Impairment
… by social communication impairments; or b) other language and/or cognitive delays (14-20%) by age three. Vocal complexity, a measure of the quality and maturity of vocal communication, seems to be a strong predictor of later expressive language in typically developing (TD) and children with ASD, …
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Une sensibilisation à la littérature et son incidence sur le développement langagier de trois enseignants d'anglais langue seconde dont l'anglais n'est pas la langue maternelle
… and Bachman and Palmer's model of communicative language ability from the domain of second language acquisition framed this exploratory mixed-methods developmental case study. The study examined the acquisition of both pragmatic language and language processes as they are related to the reading …
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