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When Bigger Looks Better: CLASS Results in Public Montessori Preschool Classrooms
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Angeline S. Lillard; Lee LeBoeuf; Corey Borgman; Elena Martynova; Ann-Marie Faria; Karen Manship – Grantee Submission, 2025
The CLASS-PreK instrument is widely used to evaluate early childhood classrooms, but how classrooms using Montessori, the world's most common alternative education system, fare on CLASS is understudied. Because CLASS focuses largely on teacher-child interactions as the situs of learning, but in Montessori theory, child-environment interactions are…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Preschool Education, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship
The Influence of Teacher Emotional Support on Language Learners' Basic Psychological Needs, Emotions, and Emotional Engagement: Treatment-Based Evidence
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Fakieh Alrabai; Wala Algazzaz – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This study assessed the influence of a 10-week teacher emotionally supportive quasi-experimental intervention on the perceived teacher emotional support (PTES), basic psychological needs (BPNs) satisfaction, emotions of anxiety and enjoyment, and emotional engagement of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Strategies targeting the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Psychological Needs
Coaching and Coursework Focused on Teacher-Child Interactions during Language/Literacy Instruction: Effects on Teacher Outcomes and Children's Classroom Engagement
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Jason T. Downer; Nicole B. Doyle; Robert C. Pianta; Margaret Burchinal; Samuel Field; Bridget K. Hamre; Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch; Carollee Howes; Karen LaParo; Catherine Scott-Little – Early Education and Development, 2024
A sample of 496 early childhood teachers was assigned randomly in two phases to a series of professional development (PD) interventions. Phase I intervention was a 14-week course on effective teacher-child interactions. Participants were then re-randomized into Phase II intervention, which consisted of individual, interactions-focused coaching.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Student Relationship, Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers
Learning in the Virtual Environment: Instructors' Strategies in Enhancing Interaction in ESL Online Classes
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Ariffin, Kamisah; Darus, Norizul Azida; Abdul Halim, Norhajawati – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The common features attributed to face-to-face classroom are rather difficult to emulate in a virtual learning environment. This is because participants may not feel obligated to participate when they do not see each other physically. This study examined the instructors' strategies in fostering interaction in their online classes. Using the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Quality of Interactions in ECE Settings and Mean Length of Utterances among 4-Year-Old Neglected Children: Results from the ELLAN Study
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Julien, Catherine; Bouchard, Caroline; Leblond, Jean; Sylvestre, Audette – First Language, 2021
Language difficulties are frequently characterized by a significantly lower mean length of utterances (MLU) among children experiencing neglect. More opportunities to experience positive interactions, such as in early childhood education (ECE) settings, could help increase these children's MLU. This study aims to examine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Neglect, Preschool Children, Speech Communication