Oral communicative competence relates to peer acceptance only for boys and not to peer rejection, indicating gender as a moderator¶
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q2 i? In a study of 54 children, oral communicative competence was associated with peer acceptance only for boys, and was not associated with peer rejection. → Femke van der Wilt 2019
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Femke van der Wilt 2019¶
Femke van der Wilt, Chiel van der Veen, Claudia van Kruistum, Bert van Oers (2019). Why Do Children Become Rejected by Their Peers? A Review of Studies into the Relationship Between Oral Communicative Competence and Sociometric Status in Childhood. Educational Psychology Review (2019) 31:699–724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09479-z
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The review reports, from van der Wilt et al. (2016) (N = 54 children aged 3.83–6.25, Nijmegen Test for Pragmatics, correlation analyses, cross-sectional design), that competence "was associated with peer acceptance (although only for boys), but not with peer rejection." No effect size is printed.
"Oral communicative competence was associated with peer acceptance (although only for boys), but not with peer rejection."
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Related Claims¶
- Rejected and neglected children show lower oral communicative competence than average children, while popular and controversial children do not differ from average
- Children's oral communicative competence is significantly related to their sociometric status in childhood — related
- Children with poorer oral communicative competence experience higher levels of peer rejection after controlling for gender, age, and SES — related
- Rejected and disliked children communicate less responsively and less coherently than popular or liked peers — related
- Gender moderates the link between educational processes and children's social–emotional competence, with stronger associations for girls than boys — related
- The relation between oral communicative competence and sociometric status is expected to be interactional and transactional rather than unidirectional — related
- The study is the first to examine whether the teacher-child relationship moderates the link between peer rejection and language competence — related
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Oral communicative competence relates to peer acceptance only for boys and not to peer rejection, indicating gender as a moderator |
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Oral communicative competence relates to peer acceptance only for boys and not to peer rejection, indicating gender as a moderator |
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