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Using LEGO Play and Storytelling to Promote Descriptive Language
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Ng, Rebecca; Lim, Cynthia – Childhood Education, 2023
This article illustrates the potential of using children's play and interest in constructive materials like LEGO bricks to support early literacy, particularly in improving the use of descriptive language. The article describes an action plan using storytelling and constructive LEGO play to improve the children's use of descriptive language and…
Descriptors: Toys, Play, Story Telling, Language Usage
A Story without Self: Vygotsky's Pedology, Bruner's Constructivism and Halliday's Construalism in Understanding Narratives by Korean Children
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Jeung, Han Hee; Kellogg, David – Language and Education, 2019
The work of L.S. Vygotsky was popularised in the West between two great waves of educational thought: constructivism and cognitivism. Reception was therefore colored by three metaphors introduced by Jerome Bruner: 'construction', 'scaffolding' and 'narrative'. Narratives were to be characterized by features we call SELF: Subjects, Expectancy and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Figurative Language, Korean, Language Acquisition
Linguistic Differences with Bilingual Parents Who Are Immigrants: Words for Dialoguing about Young Children
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Cheatham, Gregory A.; Nyegenye, Sylvia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
While partnerships including meaningful, two-way, parent-teacher dialogue about young children during early childhood program and school meetings are critical, linguistic differences between bilingual parents who are immigrants and early educators can impede communication and lead to inequitable services. In this article, we focus on one aspect of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immigrants, Language Usage, Parent Teacher Cooperation
The Sources of Young Children's Name Innovations for Novel Artifacts
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Nelson, Deborah G. Kemler; Herron, Lindsay; Holt, Morghan B. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Two studies investigated whether four-year-old children (12 in Experiment 1 with a mean age of 4;8 and 36 in Experiment 2 with a mean age of 4;7) invent names for new artifacts based on the objects' functions as opposed to their perceptual properties. Children informed about the intended functions of novel objects provided more name innovations…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Classification, Perception