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MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Glaspey, Amy M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Teachers and clinicians may struggle to provide early identification to support multilingual children's language development. Dynamic assessments are a promising approach to identify and support children's language development. Aims: We developed and studied a novel word learning task that is dynamic and language neutral. It makes use…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, French, Kindergarten, Transfer of Training
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Horst, Jessica S.; Scott, Emilly J.; Pollard, Jessica A. – Developmental Science, 2010
Previous research suggests that competition among the objects present during referent selection influences young children's ability to learn words in fast mapping tasks. The present study systematically explored this issue with 30-month-old children. Children first received referent selection trials with a target object and either two, three or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Competition, Child Development, Science Education