Esther Adi-Japha
Biographic Data
| ID | 358262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Adi-Japha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Adi-Japha |
| SIGNATURE | ADI-JAPHA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9757-0031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teachers’, parents’, and five-year-old children's perceptions of preschool classroom design and arrangement: What really matters to whom
Physical learning environments affect their users by affording opportunities for action, interaction, and meaning-making, as conceptualized in Gibson's theory of affordances. From an ecological perspective, Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory emphasizes that children's development is supported through co-agency and coordination among key social contexts, including home and educational settings. Accordingly, this study revealed the degree o…
Beyond repetition: How prompts and strategic questioning influence motor skill learning in 7-8-year-old children
This study examined the effects of explicit performance strategies, elicited through external prompts and structured questioning, on motor skill learning in eighty 7–8-year-old children (39 girls). Using a 2 × 2 randomized experimental design, children practiced a novel graphomotor symbol (the Invented Letter Task) across four training conditions varying by the presence or absence of instructional prompts and reflective questioning. Performance s…
Kinetics and Kinematics of Shape Tracing in Children with Probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (pDCD)
This research underlies the mechanisms of shape-tracing difficulties in children with DCD. Insights into early shape-tracing processes beyond product outcomes are essential for therapeutic and educational interventions, with digitized tablets offering a novel tool for assessing graphomotor skills in children with DCD
Welfare benefit cuts in early childhood and future educational outcomes: A Natural Experiment
Understanding the long-term effect of early childhood poverty on a child's life prospects presents a methodological challenge due to the potential endogeneity of family income, making it difficult to establish a clear causal relationship. This study addresses this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment: a major reduction in child allowances and income support benefits for families with young children, which disproportionately affected large…
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments
Long-term benefits after a rhyme-repetition based intervention program for kindergarteners: Better reading and spelling in the first grade
Oral language proficiency in kindergarten can facilitate the acquisition of reading and writing. However, in diglossic languages, like Arabic, the large gap between the spoken and the formal, modern standard (MSA) varieties of the language may restrict the benefits of oral language proficiency to subsequent literacy skills. Here, we tested, in a randomized controlled study, whether an intervention program, implemented in kindergarten, that famili…
Recitation and listening to nursery rhymes in the familiarization with a literacy language in kindergarteners: Not kids’ stuff
A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of the school year. We examined two issues: (a) whether reciting nursery rhymes in MSA would be more eff…
Time for considering constraints on procedural memory consolidation processes: Comment on Pan and Rickard (2015) with specific reference to developmental changes
In the acquisition of some motor skills, sleep may be necessary for the completion of procedural memory consolidation processes, as expressed in delayed "offline" performance gains. Pan and Rickard (2015) conducted an original meta-analysis of the literature on performing an explicitly instructed finger movement sequence and tested the role of sleep versus wake in the enhancement of performance over posttraining delay periods. In this comment we …
The mental time line: An analogue of the mental number line in the mapping of life events
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
Long-term benefits after a rhyme-repetition based intervention program for kindergarteners: Better reading and spelling in the first grade
Oral language proficiency in kindergarten can facilitate the acquisition of reading and writing. However, in diglossic languages, like Arabic, the large gap between the spoken and the formal, modern standard (MSA) varieties of the language may restrict the benefits of oral language proficiency to subsequent literacy skills. Here, we tested, in a randomized controlled study, whether an intervention program, implemented in kindergarten, that famili…
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
Welfare benefit cuts in early childhood and future educational outcomes: A Natural Experiment
Understanding the long-term effect of early childhood poverty on a child's life prospects presents a methodological challenge due to the potential endogeneity of family income, making it difficult to establish a clear causal relationship. This study addresses this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment: a major reduction in child allowances and income support benefits for families with young children, which disproportionately affected large…
Recitation and listening to nursery rhymes in the familiarization with a literacy language in kindergarteners: Not kids’ stuff
A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of the school year. We examined two issues: (a) whether reciting nursery rhymes in MSA would be more eff…
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
The mental time line: An analogue of the mental number line in the mapping of life events
Time for considering constraints on procedural memory consolidation processes: Comment on Pan and Rickard (2015) with specific reference to developmental changes
In the acquisition of some motor skills, sleep may be necessary for the completion of procedural memory consolidation processes, as expressed in delayed "offline" performance gains. Pan and Rickard (2015) conducted an original meta-analysis of the literature on performing an explicitly instructed finger movement sequence and tested the role of sleep versus wake in the enhancement of performance over posttraining delay periods. In this comment we …
Recitation and listening to nursery rhymes in the familiarization with a literacy language in kindergarteners: Not kids’ stuff
A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of the school year. We examined two issues: (a) whether reciting nursery rhymes in MSA would be more eff…
Long-term benefits after a rhyme-repetition based intervention program for kindergarteners: Better reading and spelling in the first grade
Oral language proficiency in kindergarten can facilitate the acquisition of reading and writing. However, in diglossic languages, like Arabic, the large gap between the spoken and the formal, modern standard (MSA) varieties of the language may restrict the benefits of oral language proficiency to subsequent literacy skills. Here, we tested, in a randomized controlled study, whether an intervention program, implemented in kindergarten, that famili…
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments
Kinetics and Kinematics of Shape Tracing in Children with Probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (pDCD)
This research underlies the mechanisms of shape-tracing difficulties in children with DCD. Insights into early shape-tracing processes beyond product outcomes are essential for therapeutic and educational interventions, with digitized tablets offering a novel tool for assessing graphomotor skills in children with DCD
Welfare benefit cuts in early childhood and future educational outcomes: A Natural Experiment
Understanding the long-term effect of early childhood poverty on a child's life prospects presents a methodological challenge due to the potential endogeneity of family income, making it difficult to establish a clear causal relationship. This study addresses this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment: a major reduction in child allowances and income support benefits for families with young children, which disproportionately affected large…
Teachers’, parents’, and five-year-old children's perceptions of preschool classroom design and arrangement: What really matters to whom
Physical learning environments affect their users by affording opportunities for action, interaction, and meaning-making, as conceptualized in Gibson's theory of affordances. From an ecological perspective, Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory emphasizes that children's development is supported through co-agency and coordination among key social contexts, including home and educational settings. Accordingly, this study revealed the degree o…
Beyond repetition: How prompts and strategic questioning influence motor skill learning in 7-8-year-old children
This study examined the effects of explicit performance strategies, elicited through external prompts and structured questioning, on motor skill learning in eighty 7–8-year-old children (39 girls). Using a 2 × 2 randomized experimental design, children practiced a novel graphomotor symbol (the Invented Letter Task) across four training conditions varying by the presence or absence of instructional prompts and reflective questioning. Performance s…
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Children's Physical and Motor Development (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Motor skill (3 works)