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- Title
Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks.
- Authors
Odean, Rosalie; Abad, Carla; Ralph, Yvonne; Pruden, Shannon M.
- Abstract
The current study explores whether individual differences in the dimensional adjectives (e.g., big, tall) children understand, relates to individual differences in two non‐verbal spatial abilities, spatial scaling and mental transformations, in bilingual children. The inclusion of English–Spanish bilingual children broadens the work in this area which has previously focused strictly on English language. Ninety‐two English–Spanish bilingual children between 37.65 and 71.87 months (42 male) participated in the study. Results show number of dimensional adjectives preschool children comprehend utilizing a new interactive, tablet‐based task relates to performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks. This research supports hypothesized relations between spatial language comprehension and spatial abilities, introduces an effective tool for examining spatial language comprehension in young children, and improves generalizability by including a bilingual sample and testing comprehension in both English and Spanish.
- Subjects
TEXAS; RESEARCH funding; PORTABLE computers; TASK performance; RESEARCH evaluation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NONVERBAL communication; MULTILINGUALISM; SPANISH language; CHILD development; ACHIEVEMENT tests; SPACE perception; ENGLISH language; THOUGHT &; thinking; LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Infant & Child Development, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1522-7227
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/icd.2484