Focusing on the importance of morphemes in early literacy, this book highlights research findings that demonstrate how teaching these language units can enhance children's reading and writing skills. It serves as a vital resource for educators and parents dedicated to improving literacy in young learners.
Using Mathematics to Understand the World offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world.
The study of language learning today includes novel ways of taking into account the impact of genes and the environment. New theories in this domain consider how cognitive systems are established by the human genetic make-up and how they develop in a variety of circumstances. An exclusive feature of this special issue is that it goes beyond the study of language learning by typical learners in typical environments. For example, deaf children and bilingual children deal with quite different inputs when learning a language. The papers in this issue analyse these differences and how they affect language learning. The learning processes of children with specific language impairments are also analysed, and it is queried to what extent the difficulties they encounter are specific to language learning as such. The papers in this special issue are dynamic in their approach to development, and show how development can be shaped by individual differences in perceptual or learning mechanisms as well as by environments with different linguistic inputs. Psycholinguists and linguists, speech therapists and researchers, developmental, cognitive and neuropsychologists as well as educators will find an up-to-date overview on language development.
Focusing on key issues in the understanding of the development of mathematical thinking and problem solving, this special issue is unique in the way it provides distinct perspectives on the development of mathematics knowledge. Outstanding researchers in the field present papers that address the nature and development of mathematical reasoning in theory and research. Topics include developmental and cognitive psychology analyses of mathematical reasoning as well as a contemporary view of the role of technologies in mathematics thinking and learning in children and adults in contexts of the classroom and working place. Readers will find new ways of thinking about the problem raised by Piaget in association with the psychological, pedagogical and cultural background. The theories and research presented in this special issue are addressed to developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, mathematics education researchers and teachers who will find an essential collection of papers that synthesizes these perspectives.