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Dossey, Ellen; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Wagner, Laura – Language Learning and Development, 2020
This study investigated the developmental trajectories of three perceptual domains related to regional dialect competence: the linguistic domain, tested through an intelligibility in noise task; the objective indexical domain, tested through locality judgments and a free classification task; and the subjective indexical domain, tested through…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Dialects, Task Analysis, Auditory Discrimination
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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Lo, Jesse Ho-Yin; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This article examines relationships between children and youths' judgments and their justifications of truth telling and verbal deception, in situational and cultural contexts. Han Chinese, Euro-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, seven- to 17-years of age were presented competitive scenarios in which protagonists told either lies to protect, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Context, Ethics, Sociocultural Patterns
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Thompson, R. Bruce; Cothran, Thomas; McCall, Daniel – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study explored preschool age and gender differences in help-seeking within the theoretical framework of scaffolded problem-solving and self-regulation (Bruner, 1986; Rogoff, 1990; Vygotsky, 1978; 1986). Within-subject analyses tracked changes in help-seeking among 62 preschoolers (34 boys, 28 girls, mean age 4.22 years) solving a challenging…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Educational Practices, Gender Differences