Sentence examples for competence children from inspiring English sources

Whatever social competence children showed before passing the false belief test was widely considered a precursor to having a theory of mind.

Without this competence, children feel incapable of mastering the many challenges with which they will be confronted in their lives.

Also, without this sense of competence, children are truly victims; they believe that they are powerless to change the things that might happen to them.

Without a fundamental belief in their competence, children will likely be doubtful, feel insecure in uncertain situations, and experience reluctance and fear when put in unfamiliar circumstances.

With a sense of competence, children learn that when things are not going well, they have the power to make changes in their lives for the better.

A paradox at the heart of language acquisition research is that, to achieve adult-like competence, children must acquire the ability to generalize verbs into non-attested structures, while avoiding utterances that are deemed ungrammatical by native speakers.

On the one hand, it is naïve to suggest that wildlife can resolve poverty for millions of people in drylands, but on the other, CBNRM has clearly benefited both people and wildlife where it has been implemented with some level of competence (Child et al. 2003; NACSO 2006).

Apart from cognitive abilities, competence in children is thought to be related to life experience: children who have personal experiences with illness may show greater insight and understanding than children of comparable age who lack this experience [ 11, 18, 19].

While statutory age limits have obviously taken into consideration the welfare of both society and the child, there is no clear empirical evidence regarding the competence of children's age groups.

Moreover, with structural equation modeling we observed that the development of lexical competence in children with hearing loss is stable over time, and a child's lexical competence can be explained best by his or her lexical competence assessed on a previous measurement occasion.

Birds, especially the scarlet ibis, weave the book's multiple storylines together and provide a moving backdrop for a story that celebrates the often overlooked courage, loyalty and competence of children.