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Adi-Japha, Esther; Berberich-Artzi, Jennie; Libnawi, Afaf – Child Development, 2010
A. Karmiloff-Smith's (1990) task of drawing a nonexistent object is considered to be a measure of cognitive flexibility. The notion of earlier emergence of cognitive flexibility in bilingual children motivated the current researchers to request 4- and 5-year-old English-Hebrew and Arabic-Hebrew bilingual children and their monolingual peers to…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Monolingualism, English, Language Enrichment
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Perner, Josef; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Tested the hypothesis that young children's tendency to draw horizontal or vertical objects perpendicularly to an oblique surface reflects their preference for perpendicular drawings as conceptually correct depictions. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education