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Qun Li; Jia He; Min Liu; Ruijing Lu; Xueying Wang – Deafness & Education International, 2024
This study aims to document the implementation of sign bilingualism and co-enrollment education in a kindergarten in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, to identify the major characteristics of the programme, and to report findings of children's language in terms of vocabulary and surveys on the views and attitudes of the stakeholders of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
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Piasta, Shayne B.; Bridges, Mindy Sittner; Park, Somin; Nelson-Strouts, Kelley; Hikida, Michiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Efforts to improve classroom language practices and children's language learning, as a means of supporting reading comprehension, may depend on teachers' knowledge about language structures and language development. To date, however, educational researchers and teacher educators have little understanding about teachers' knowledge about oral…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preschool Teachers, Validity
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Martínez-Valdivia, Estefanía; Pegalajar-Palomino, Mª Carmen; Higueras-Rodríguez, M. Lina – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The research has the purpose of analyzing the experience of the students of the first course of the Early Childhood Education Degree on the methodology of the Dialogic Literary Circles. The aim is to examine the variables that influence the academic performance of the future teacher, as well as the conditions that have an impact on their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Coelho, Daniela; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Portugal, Gabriela – Language Awareness, 2018
This article reports a study which examined the effects of an "Awakening to Languages" (AtL) programme on preschool children's language abilities. This programme aimed at exposing children to language and cultural diversity as well as promoting positive attitudes towards different languages and cultures amongst children. However,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Metalinguistics, Communication Skills, Syntax
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Li, Jin; Yamamoto, Yoko; Luo, Lily; Batchelor, Andrea K.; Bresnahan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The developing views of the purposes of school learning (PSLs) and related achievement among immigrant Chinese preschoolers and their European American (EA) age-mates were examined. Both culture and socioeconomic status (SES) were considered simultaneously, an often neglected research approach to studying Asian children. One hundred and fifty…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Immigrants, Chinese Americans, Whites
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Sobel, David M.; Li, Jin; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Two studies examined how 3-6-year-olds understand the process of learning. In study 1 examined how children spontaneously talk about learning via a CHILDES language analysis. Talk about the learning process increased between the ages of 3-5. Talk specifically about learning in terms of desire decreased during this period. This suggests the…
Descriptors: Intention, Concept Formation, Young Children, Learning Processes