Relación entre el desarrollo del lenguaje y las funciones ejecutivas en sujetos de 0 a 6 años. Una revisión sistemática

Laura Abellán Roselló

doi:10.24310/IJNE.10.2022.15730

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Laura Abellán Roselló Universitat Jaume I Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-9024

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https://doi.org/10.24310/IJNE.10.2022.15730

Keywords:

language development, executive functions, early childhood

Abstract

The current study tries to locate the best knowledge about the relationship between de executive functions and the language through a systematic review. We have reviewed 18 articles published between 2014 to 2020. These articles are related with the development of executive functions and language in an age range of 0 to 6 years. The findings shown a significant relationship between the executive functions and language development. Specifically, the results link language development with focus, working memory and flexibility. This relationship, although it is significant, is weak because those constructs are a multifactorial in nature. The most reports correlate executive functions with the vocabulary leaving out others language components. There is significant relationship between flexibility and working memory with the vocabulary, but the results conclude this relationship is not solid over time. Syntax and language comprehension are significant related with flexibility and working memory, too, but it is indirectly related with inhibition. To conclude, we extract that the executive functions and language development are positively related, but this development are influenced by more factors whom they must to be included to be explicate.

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Author Biography

Laura Abellán Roselló, Universitat Jaume I

Laura Abellán Roselló, doctora en Educación por la Universidad de Valencia. Licenciada en Psicología y Máster en Psicopatología, salud y neuropsicología por la Universidad Jaume I. En el año 2012 inicié mi primera línea de investigación sobre aprendizaje y motivación educativa siguiendo el Modelo de Calidad de Situación Educativa (MOCSE), a la que se suman otras líneas como Dificultades de Aprendizaje, concretamente en establecer cómo predictores de acceso al léxico y a las matemáticas en Educación Infantil pueden prevenir problemas de rendimiento académico en Educación Primaria.

Tengo dedicación completa como PDI desde el curso 2018/2019 en la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). Además, soy profesora asociada en la Universidad Jaime I desde el curso 2016/2017 y he trabajado en la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija como profesora asociada durante el curso 2018/2019 y en la Universidad Internacional de Valencia durante el curso 2019/2020.

Durante mi trayectoria profesional he publicado diversos artículos en revistas nacionales e internacionales de prestigio, he realizado varias estancias de investigación y he participado en Congresos Internacionales, aportando comunicaciones de interés científico. Adicionalmente, he participado como investigadora-colaboradora en un proyecto de innovación educativa financiado por la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. Por último, he realizado tareas de revisora en revistas nacionales e internacionales de calidad investigativa.

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