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Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development
In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298384
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages)
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Early reading instruction: What science really tells us about how to teach re…
"A Bradford book."Early Reading Instruction is a comprehensive analysis of the research evidence from early writing systems to computer models of reading. In this book, Diane McGuinness provides an innovative solution to the "reading war"--the century-old debate over the efficacy of phonics (sound-based) versus whole-word (meaning- based) methods. She has developed a prototype--a set of element…
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- 9780262279499
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 410 pages)
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Fables and futures :biotechnology, disability, and the stories we tell ourselves
How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262351799
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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How children learn the meanings of words
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul…
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- 9780262268783
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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- Learning, Development, And Conceptual Change
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- 400 BLO h
Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts. Backed by extensive experimental results, she challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes that a set o…
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- 9780262279147
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- 1 online resource (250 pages) :illustrations.
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Folk psychological narratives The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 402 pages)
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Child data citizen :how tech companies are profiling us from before birth
"Explores the collection of children's biometric, educational, and social media data and its immediate and downstream effects for individuals and families"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363674
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) : illustrations.
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Children without a state: A global human rights challenge
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at risk from statelessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. …
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- 9780262295437
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) :illustrations, map
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Late-Talking Children: A Symptom or a Stage
When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book, children are late in beginning to talk for a wide v…
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- 9780262319331
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- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages)
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