Sociolinguistic awareness and false belief in young Cantonese learners of English.
J Exp Child Psychol
; 107(2): 188-94, 2010 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-20541768
ABSTRACT
In this study, we examined whether sociolinguistic awareness and false belief were uniquely related in 3- and 4-year-old Cantonese-speaking children learning English as a second language. The English-use background of these children varied so that they possessed sociolinguistic awareness to different degrees. Results indicated that sociolinguistic awareness predicted false belief uniquely after controlling for age, nonverbal intelligence, English vocabulary, and family income for both the second language learners and the more balanced bilinguals. The group difference in false belief was adequately explained by the corresponding difference in sociolinguistic awareness over and above the other variables. Such findings provide evidence for the claim that false belief understanding is critically related to sociolinguistic awareness, which in turn is influenced by how a second language is learned.
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Coleções:
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comportamento Social
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Percepção da Fala
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Conscientização
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Idioma
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Aprendizagem
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article