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Temporal Associations of Physical Activity Volume, Intensity, and Timing With Sleep in Preschool‐Aged Children

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the temporal relationships between accelerometer‐derived physical activity metrics—specifically volume, intensity, and timing—with the preceding and subsequent nights' sleep in preschool‐aged children. This analysis used the baseline data from a randomised controlled trial among 93 children (53 boys) aged 3–5.9 ...
Wendy Yajun Huang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic Achievement and Emotional Education Using Music Learning in Spain

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the current research work, we intend to analyse the effect of music on developing students' academic performance, self‐concept and emotional development. We work with experimental data gathered from an application of special music lessons at schools aimed at developing students' learning and at educating their emotions in the academic year ...
Oscar David Marcenaro‐Gutierrez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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