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Fictional Narrative Skills Of Preschool-Age Bilingual Children With Typical Language Development, Lydia Bias
Fictional Narrative Skills Of Preschool-Age Bilingual Children With Typical Language Development, Lydia Bias
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Oral narrative retells are commonly used in assessment to examine language and literacy development in young children. Due to the increasing number of bilingual children in the United States, it is necessary to understand typical development in order to assess and intervene when needed. English story retells from eight preschool-age Spanish-English bilingual children were analyzed in the present study using the Narrative Assessment Protocol. Analyses were conducted to examine differences in narrative microstructure at two time points. In the present study, a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum test which is a nonparametric statistical measure was used to determine whether there was …
The Association Between Preschool Type And Children's Concentration Abilities, Jessica Jarvis
The Association Between Preschool Type And Children's Concentration Abilities, Jessica Jarvis
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The author of the study compared concentration abilities in 4-5 year-olds attending Montessori and traditional preschools in Bowling Green, Ohio. Number of errors and processing times on the Marburg concentration test were used to measure children's concentration abilities. No significant differences in concentration abilities were found for preschoolers attending Montessori and traditional schools.