Fathers as informants of children’s fears and worries

Fears and worries in a representative sample of children.

Parents’ Fears and Worries about Recurrent Abdominal Pain

Abdominal pain is common in children and adults alike. As many as 9 to 25% of schoolaged children suffer from recurring episodes of moderate to severe abdominal pain (RAP). In addition to the distress that is associated with the anticipation of pain or actual pain, increased school absence is a significant worry in these children. Spontaneous recovery is common, but many children continue to su...

Young Children Treat Robots as Informants

Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robots as informants from whom they could seek information. Consistent with studies of children's earl...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...