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Lars Holm; Annegrethe Ahrenkiel – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Inspired by research in language play and linguistic ethnography, this article examines children's language play in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a locally situated generic practice created through children's semiotic repertoires. The article is based on video-recorded linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish day care centre.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Child Language
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Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A.; Purtell, Kelly; Bleses, Dorthe; Højen, Anders – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
As early childhood education programming expands across the globe, there is an increased need to understand how features of these programs influence children's development. The composition of children's age within a classroom is one such feature, although it is much less studied than other features. Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that…
Descriptors: Mixed Age Grouping, Early Childhood Education, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Bleses, Dorthe; Højen, Anders; Justice, Laura M.; Dale, Philip S.; Dybdal, Line; Piasta, Shayne B.; Markussen-Brown, Justin; Clausen, Marit; Haghish, E. F. – Child Development, 2018
The present article reports results of a real-world effectiveness trial conducted in Denmark with six thousand four hundred eighty-three 3- to 6-year-olds designed to improve children's language and preliteracy skills. Children in 144 child cares were assigned to a control condition or one of three planned variations of a 20-week storybook-based…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Intervention