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Kellogg, David; Shin, Ji-young – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2018
Vygotsky measured his 'zone of proximal development' in years. To do this, he needed a scheme of age periods, and a set of tasks that could diagnose the next age period without defining it. In this paper, we compare the age periods in his late lectures with Halliday's categories of logico-semantic expansion as used by three adolescent…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development, Problem Solving, Ability
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Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Durkin, Kevin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Research has consistently documented a relationship between phonological short-term memory skills (STM) and specific language impairment (SLI). This study reports on the development of phonological STM abilities over 3 years in 80 young adolescents with a history of SLI, investigating the nature of the relationship between phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Adolescents, Regression (Statistics), Adolescents