The Developmental Role of Attentional Control in Language Learning

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dc.contributor.advisorYoshida, Hanako
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHernandez, Arturo E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAghara, Rachel G.
dc.creatorTran, Duc
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-27T16:10:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-27T16:10:42Z
dc.date.available2012-06-27T16:10:33Z
dc.date.available2012-06-27T16:10:42Z
dc.date.createdDecember 2011
dc.date.issued2011-12
dc.date.updated2012-06-27T16:10:43Z
dc.description.abstractIncreasing research suggests that bilingual children have advanced (relative to monolingual children) development of attentional control. The present study includes 94 bilingual and 110 monolingual child participants from a variety of language and age groups (2.5 to 5 year-olds) to systematically investigate how early learning/exposure to more than one language is related to the developmental shift of attention and its possible implications in early language learning. Results from the present study support an initial bilingual advantage in the Attention Network Test (ANT; a nonlinguistic task measuring attentional shifting), with monolinguals demonstrating comparable performance over time. Furthermore, significant relationships were found among overall accuracy, response time, the efficiency of individual attentional networks of the ANT and the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI; a standardized parental report used to assess children's lexical growth). Moreover, this was specifically the case for the selected lexical category of adjectives. The current study provides new insights into the early developmental trajectory of attention among monolingual and bilingual children and how effective attention may be relevant developmental component for early language learning.
dc.description.departmentPsychology, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/295
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectAttention development
dc.subjectAttentional control
dc.subjectLanguage learning
dc.subjectAttention network test
dc.subjectVocabulary
dc.subjectLexical category
dc.subjectLexicons
dc.subjectBilingual
dc.subject.lcshAttention in children
dc.titleThe Developmental Role of Attentional Control in Language Learning
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentPsychology, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.majorDevelopmental
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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