Benjamin D. Zinszer|Joelle Hannon|Anqi Hu|Aya Élise Kouadio|Hermann Akpé|Fabrice Tanoh|Madeleine Wang|Zhenghan Qi|Kaja K. Jasi?ska
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire
Swarthmore College|University of Delaware|University of Delaware|Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny|Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny|Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny|Université Pelefero Gon Coulibaly|Swarthmore College|Northeastern University|Haskins Laboratories|University of Toronto
studies nonlinguistic statistical learning sl often linked performance sl tasks differences language outcomes studies focused western highincome educational contexts children worldwide learn radically different educational systems communities often second language west african nation cte divoire children enter fifth grade cm1 widely varying ages literacy skills across three iterativelydeveloped experiments 157 children age 815 years rural communities greateradzpe region cte divoire watched sequences cartoon images embedded triplet patterns touchscreen tablets performing targetdetection task assessed tabletbased adaptations nonlinguistic visual sl asked whether childrens individual differences performance sl tasks related first second language literacy skills found grouplevel evidence children used statistical regularities image sequence gradually decrease response times responses posttest discrimination reflect learning evaluating correlation sl language skills individual differences related task demands predicted oral language skills shared first second languages sl better predicted second language print skills findings suggest nonlinguistic sl paradigms measure similar skills ivorian children previous samples also echo recent calls crosscultural validation greater internal reliability tests confounding variables processing speed studies individual differences statistical learning research highlights iteratively adapted three visual statistical learning studies children rural cte divoire grouplevel analyses indicates children learn underlying statistical regularities individualdifferences analyses reveal evidence statistical learning measure also correlated task demands may driven crosscultural differences like previous research statistical learning correlated second language literacy find relationship sl oral language skills first second languages