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Direct linkJudy, Tiffany – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The present study examines potential age and microparametric effects in childhood bilinguals (currently adults) in an understudied language pairing, Polish-Spanish. Specifically, a Spanish group (N = 28) and a Sequential child bilingual (N = 22) and a Simultaneous bilingual (N = 8) group living in Misiones, Argentina, completed three experimental…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Bilingualism, Polish
Zimmer, Elly Jane – First Language, 2017
This study asks whether children accept both interpretations of ambiguous sentences with contexts supporting each option. Twenty-six 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children and a control group of 30 English-speaking adults participated in a truth value judgment task. As a step towards evaluating the complexity of syntactic ambiguity, the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax
Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Second Language Research, 2015
The present study examines and compares the extent to which advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish heritage speakers acquire the syntactic and semantic properties that regulate the grammatical representation of double complementizer questions in Spanish, a CP-related structure not present in English. Results from an aural sentence completion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Role
Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
Flynn, Emma; Whiten, Andrew – Social Development, 2008
Developmental and gender effects in the transmission of information about a tool-use task were investigated within a "diffusion chain" design. One hundred and twenty-seven children (65 three-year-olds and 62 five-year-olds) participated. Eighty children took part in diffusion chains in which consecutive children in chains of five witnessed two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis, Children, Control Groups
Schwenck, Christina; Bjorklund, David F.; Schneider, Wolfgang – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Children who were 4 to 8 years of age were asked to perform a sort-recall task where only half of the items had to be studied and remembered. Following a baseline trial, children were assigned to 1 of 3 groups and were prompted to use either a sorting or a clustering strategy (experimental groups) or were not prompted at all (control group).…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Individual Differences, Memory
Hart, Melanie A.; Smith, Lori A.; DeChant-Bruennig, Ann – Physical Educator, 2006
The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the influence of a cup stacking instructional unit on the hand-eye coordination of children. Participants (N = 104) consisted of three grade level groups (first/second, third and fourth). Within each grade level participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group.…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physical Education, Perceptual Motor Coordination
