Almazova O.V., Bukhalenkova D.A., Gavrilova M.N., Tarasova K.S. Lexical Indicators of Speech Development in Preschool Children with Different Levels of Self-Regulation

Received: 10/24/2018

DOI: 10.24411/1997-9657-2018-10035

Keywords: preschool age executive functions language development self-regulation auditory memory spatial memory cognitive flexibility inhibition

To cite this article:

Almazova О.V., Bukhalenkova D.А., Gavrilova М.N., Tarasova K.S. (2018). . Preschool Education Today. 8:12, 54–61 (in Russian). DOI: 10.24411/1997-9657-2018-10035

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Margarita N. Gavrilova
PhD in Psychology, Researcher of the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Kristina S. Tarasova
Researcher, Department of Methodology of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Olga V. Almazova
Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov MSU, Associate Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, Moscow, Russia

Daria A. Bukhalenkova
Cand. Sci. (Psychology), Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Childhood Psychology and Digital Socialization, Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplin ary Research; Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

This study provided a detailed analysis of lexical development in children with different level of executive functions in preschool age. The study was conducted by a sample of 279 children 5-6 years old, which were examined the level of executive functioning (executive-loaded working memory, switching, inhibition) and language ability to verbal fluency performance. We used the test “Associative series” to evaluate language ability to verbal fluency performance in free associations. The relationships between verbal fluency performance in free associations and executive functioning were discovered in lexical development of speech with auditory working memory and cognitive flexibility. Productivity in free associations was connected with spatial working memory and directed associations (naming of actions and animals) was connected with inhibition.

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