Index Catalog // Arch : Northwestern University Institutional Repository

Description:: The rise in children’s media use (Rideout & Robb, 2020) and the prioritization of STEM learning (Fayer et al., 2017) has led to the development of new STEM-related apps, TV shows, and other media for young children. One topic in this area gaining popularity is computational thinking (CT). Researchers refer...
Keyword:: Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Computational Thinking, Early Childhood, Educational Television, and STEM
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Science education, and Communication
Creator:: Lemley, Breniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1011152 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16709

Description:: Children acquire linguistic competence via social interactions with adults and learn to converse in accordance with the norms of their communities. The present dissertation examined the communicative patterns of Thai-English bilingual mothers and children in their two languages, as well as compared the bilinguals’ conversations to each of their monolingual...
Keyword:: parent-child interactions, narrative, bilingualism, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and language development
Subject:: Developmental psychology and Communication
Creator:: Rochanavibhata, Sirada
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_900936 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16044

Description:: Children are known to be curious and persistent question-askers. The pervasiveness of voice interfaces represents an opportunity for children who are still learning to read and write to independently search the Internet by directing questions at conversational agents such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and the Google Assistant. However, little...
Keyword:: question-asking, voice assistants, conversational agents, and children
Subject:: Information science, Developmental psychology, and Communication
Creator:: Lovato, Silvia B
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662479 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14643

LIBRARIES | ARCH