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Pauen, Sabina; Bechtel-Kuehne, Sabrina – Child Development, 2016
This report investigates tool learning and its relations to executive functions (EFs) in toddlers. In Study 1 (N = 93), 18-, 20-, 22-, and 24-month-old children learned equally well to choose a correct tool from observation, whereas performance based on feedback improved with age. Knowledge transfer showed significant progress after 22 months of…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Observation, Feedback (Response)
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Engel de Abreu, Pascale M. J.; Gathercole, Susan E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
This article reports a latent variable study exploring the specific links among executive processes of working memory, phonological short-term memory, phonological awareness, and proficiency in first (L1), second (L2), and third (L3) languages in 8- to 9-year-olds experiencing multilingual education. Children completed multiple L1-measures of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonology, French, Reading Comprehension