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Phonological Storage and Executive Function Deficits in Children with Mathematics Difficulties
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Peng, Peng; Congying, Sun; Beilei, Li; Sha, Tao – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Children with mathematics difficulties suffer from working memory deficits. This study investigated the deficit profile of phonological storage and executive functions in working memory among children with mathematics difficulties. Based on multiple instruments and two assessment points, 68 children were screened out of 805 fifth graders. Of these…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
Vocabulary Teaching Strategies and Conceptual Representations of Words in L2 in Children: Evidence with Novice Learners
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Comesana, Montserrat; Perea, Manuel; Pineiro, Ana; Fraga, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
A controversial issue in bilingual research is whether in the early stages of L2 learning, access to the conceptual system involves mediation of L1 lexical representations [Kroll, J. F., & Stewart, E. (1994). Category interference in translation and picture naming: Evidence for asymmetric connections between bilingual memory representations.…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Translation, Second Language Learning
Fading Procedures and Oddity Learning in Kindergarten Children
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Cheney, Thomas; Stein, Norman – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
The effectiveness of three fading and two nonfading procedures were compared in training kindergarten children on an oddity problem in which shape was the relevant dimension. (SBT)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Laboratory Equipment