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Preschool Teachers' Fidelity in Implementing a Comprehensive Language-Rich Curriculum
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Pence, Khara L.; Justice, Laura M.; Wiggins, Alice K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2008
Purpose: This study examined preschool teachers' fidelity to the language-focused curriculum (LFC; B. Bunce, 1995), a comprehensive classroom curriculum designed to improve at-risk children's language outcomes through targeted improvements to a classroom's activity contexts (e.g., dramatic play, art, storybook reading) and instructional processes…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Dramatic Play, Preschool Children, Speech Language Pathology
Children's Experiments with Language.
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Schwartz, Judith I. – Young Children, 1981
Describes various aspects of young children's playful use of language. The kind and characteristics, functions, and teaching implications of language play are discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childrens Games, Early Childhood Education, Language Usage
The Drama Workshop: A Lab Alternative.
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Cernyak, Susan E.; Reimer, Robert C. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
In lieu of language lab attendance, second-year language students had the option of attending a drama lab. This program has met with great success. The objective of the lab is to improve skills in pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. Also, an environment is created in which the student feels at home with the target language. (PJM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatic Play, Intonation, Language Usage
Using the Microcomputer to Enhance Language Experiences and the Development of Cooperative Play among Preschool Children.
Muhlstein, Eleanor A.; Croft, Doreen J. – 1986
Current interest and controversy about the use of microcomputers with young children led to a study of 13 3- to 5-year-old girls and boys enrolled at the De Anza College Child Development Center in Cupertino, California. Designed to determine the effectiveness of the computer in enhancing language experiences and development of cooperative play…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Games, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cooperation
Intervention Strategies for Pragmatically Impaired Preschoolers: The Classroom Context.
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Cecconi, Christine P. – 1987
A classroom-oriented therapeutic program was devised for four pragmatically impaired preschoolers who showed little spontaneous language use within the classroom. Intervention strategies focused on facilitating interactions during free play and were based on four principles for practitioners: be child-oriented; engineer the environment; use…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Communication Disorders, Discourse Analysis