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Pupils Dilate More to Harder Vocabulary Words than Easier Ones
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Ishanti Gangopadhyay; Daniel Fulford; Kathleen Corriveau; Jessica Mow; Pearl Han Li; Sudha Arunachalam – Cognitive Science, 2024
Understanding cognitive effort expended during assessments is essential to improving efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility within these assessments. Pupil dilation is commonly used as a psychophysiological measure of cognitive effort, yet research on its relationship with effort expended specifically during language processing is limited. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Difficulty Level, Motor Reactions, Cognitive Ability
Investigating Task Persistence in Preschool Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Madison Formanek; Tammie J. Spaulding – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: The present study was designed to investigate persistence in preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD) compared to similar-age peers with typical language (TL) on tasks designed to be moderately challenging, yet equivalent in difficulty for both groups. Method: Sixteen preschool-age children with DLD were matched to 16…
Descriptors: Persistence, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Can Small Changes Matter? Reducing Cognitive Load in Educational Media Supports Low-Income Preschoolers' Vocabulary Learning
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Samudra, Preeti G.; Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Preschoolers can learn vocabulary from educational videos, but children from low-income backgrounds often do not learn as effectively as their higher income peers. We investigated whether adding attention-directing cues to media (Study 1) and slowing the pacing of media (Study 2) supported vocabulary learning for preschoolers from low-income…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cues, Attention, Vocabulary Development
The Repetition of Relative Clauses in Mandarin Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Wang, Haiyan; Yu, Haopeng – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
This paper attempts to investigate the repetition of Relative Clauses (RCs) in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (aged 4; 5 to 6; 0) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The results of a sentence repetition task indicate that Mandarin children with DLD perform significantly worse than both groups of TD children,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
A Novel Computer-Based Assessment Tool for Evaluating Early Literacy Skills in Italian Preschoolers
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Bastianello, Tamara; Brondino, Margherita; Persici, Valentina; Majorano, Marinella – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
The present contribution aims at presenting an assessment tool (i.e., the TALK-assessment) built to evaluate the language development and school readiness of Italian preschoolers before they enter primary school, and its predictive validity for the children's reading and writing skills at the end of the first year of primary school. The early…
Descriptors: Literacy, Computer Assisted Testing, Italian, Language Acquisition
Performance of New Cognitive Assessments with Head Start Children: Emerging Evidence from FACES and AIAN, FACES 2019. OPRE Report 2022-49
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Nguyen, Tutrang; Malone, Lizabeth; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Larson, Addison; Cannon, Judy – Administration for Children & Families, 2022
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) and the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AIAN FACES) are separate studies done successively over time. One goal for these studies is to provide a national picture of children's readiness for school. In this research brief, the authors use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Ability, School Readiness, Low Income Students