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Catherine Akoth Ongoro; Yong-Yi Fanjiang – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
This article aims to provide a systematic review of existing research on the use of digital game-based learning (DGBL) technology for foreign language (English) in preschool and elementary schools. Digital game-based technology enables learning to become more interactive and inspirational, thereby enhancing language acquisition. The authors…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Elementary School Students, Preschool Education, Creativity
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Sop, Aylin; Biskin, Serap Özdemir – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
Developing character strengths in early childhood has attracted increased attention all around the world in recent years. Nevertheless, very few studies have examined teachers' awareness and practices concerning character strengths. The present study aimed to discover early childhood teachers' awareness of children's character strengths and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Content Analysis
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Deng, Tao; Hu, Bi Ying; Wang, X. Christine; Li, Yuanhua; Jiang, Chunlian; Su, Yijie; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study investigated teachers' Concept development (CD) strategy use in whole-group math teaching and its associations with children's higher-order thinking processes in 25 Chinese preschool math lessons. We utilized the CD dimension within the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) to guide our exploration. CD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Preschool Teachers, Concept Formation
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McGonigle-Chalmers, Maggie; Slater, Hannah; Smith, Ashley – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Private speech utterances (PS) from 24 preschool children and 24 adults were obtained under (noninteracting) listener present and listener absent conditions using 2 tasks with an identical structure. Children produced significantly more PS in the listener present condition. Similar results were obtained with adults, albeit with a reduced incidence…
Descriptors: Inner Speech (Subvocal), Task Analysis, Problem Solving, Preschool Children
Kisamore, April N.; Carr, James E.; LeBlanc, Linda A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
It has been suggested that verbally sophisticated individuals engage in a series of precurrent behaviors (e.g., covert intraverbal behavior, grouping stimuli, visual imagining) to solve problems such as answering questions (Palmer, 1991; Skinner, 1953). We examined the effects of one problem solving strategy--visual imagining--on increasing…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Visualization, Problem Solving, Classification
Sautter, Rachael A.; LeBlanc, Linda A.; Jay, Allison A.; Goldsmith, Tina R.; Carr, James E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
We examined whether typically developing preschoolers could learn to use a problem-solving strategy that involved self-prompting with intraverbal chains to provide multiple responses to intraverbal categorization questions. Teaching the children to use the problem-solving strategy did not produce significant increases in target responses until…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Preschool Children, Prompting, Classification