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Direct linkKristina M. Tank; Tamara J. Moore; Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich; Zarina Wafula; Lin Chu; Sohheon Yang – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
This study investigates the integration of computational thinking (CT) into early elementary literacy, focusing on kindergarten to second grade students, using multiple representations to understand their ideas of CT. Through clinical task-based interviews with 12 students, we found that concrete manipulatives, pictorial/graphical representations,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Inclusion
Milkova, Eva; Pekarkova, Simona – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The presented study focuses on children aged from 5 to 6.5 who attend Czech kindergartens. Its purpose is to explore a potential positive impact of an educational game application on malleability of children's spatial skills through the application usage. The research was conducted as a pedagogical experiment in which the pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Educational Games
Thomas, Becs; Mackay, Kirsten; Stephenson, Niki; McChesney, Jane – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2022
This article reports from a Teacher-led Innovation Fund project that investigated connecting practices and resources for mathematical learning between a kindergarten and the first year of school. Teachers at both sites were teacher-researchers in the 2-year project. Our results highlighted expected and unexpected aspects of connections and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation, Kindergarten
Moharami, Mehdi; Daneshfar, Samran – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Education policy seeks to define the purpose of schooling and design the educational sphere according to authorities' objectives and people's needs. Governments set policies and principles to reach their intended goals in education, preserving people's values and culture. Many countries provide learning foreign languages in their curriculum to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
aus der Wieschen, Maria Vanessa; Sert, Olcay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The role of students' first language(s) in foreign language classrooms has been hotly debated in the last decades. Although this line of research has advanced our understanding of language choice in the L2 classroom, it has mostly dealt with adolescent and adult learners. From a contextual perspective, then, more micro-analytic research that…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tang, Xiaowei; Yang, Liu; Levin, Daniel M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this study, we explore how cross-linguistic differences can contribute to children's scientific thinking. We compared first and third grade Chinese students' pre-instructional ideas of the earth expressed in clinical interviews with that of their English-speaking and Greek-speaking counterparts (as recorded in the literature). Inspired by a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Henke, Kristin Sattler – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation in teacher leadership represents original, independent research that investigated bilingual language instruction of an indigenous Alaskan group of students. Ethnographic research using qualitative and quantitative data was applied to develop an understanding of correlations between the value of English and Yup'ik language and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, English (Second Language)
Download full textSalmona Madriñan, Mara – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This action research project was carried out in order to identify the role of first language in the second-language classroom. This study was conducted in a Colombian international school with an English immersion program for kindergarten students attending their first year of school. The purpose of this study was to identify if the use of the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Action Research, Language Role
Dhonau, Stephanie, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2013
This year's volume of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) Report centering on the conference theme of MultiTasks, MultiSkills, and MultiConnections focused on the importance or world language use within the classroom and beyond with articles extending the conversation on target language use in instruction,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Role, Elementary Secondary Education
