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Identifying Play Skills That Predict Children's Language in the Beginning of the First Year of School
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Stagnitti, Karen; Paatsch, Louise; Nolan, Andrea; Campbell, Kate – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Strong oral language skills are foundational for literacy development and begin before a child enters formal schooling. Oral language development has been related to pretend play abilities in children. Children, particularly those from disadvantaged areas, who enter school with low pretend play levels and oral language abilities, are at risk for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Play
Influence of School Principal's Attributes and 21st-Century Leadership Skills on Teachers' Performance
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De Castro, Gerly B.; Jimenez, Edward C. – Online Submission, 2022
This study aimed to determine the influence of school principals' attributes and 21st Century Leadership skills on teachers' performance. The study is as follows. The teachers in the northern part of the National Capital Region are female, teacher I position, have rendered 5-14 years of service, and pursued higher studies after college. The…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Oral Language
Ventriloquism as Early Literacy Practice: Making Meaning in Pretend Play
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Bateman, Amanda – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
This article discusses how children in New Zealand make meaning in their spontaneous pretend play from kindergarten (four years old) through to their first year of primary school (five years old). The findings discussed here are taken from a wider project investigating children's storytelling where 12 child participants were video recorded during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten
Hearing as Touch in a Multilingual Film Interview: The Interviewer's Linguistic Incompetence as Aesthetic Key Moment
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Frimberger, Katja – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
This article explores the author's embodied experience of linguistic incompetence in the context of an interview-based, short, promotional film production about people's personal connections to their spoken languages in Glasgow, Scotland/UK. The article highlights that people's right to their spoken languages during film interviews and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Films, Interviews, Nonverbal Communication
Using the Transformative Power of Play to Educate Hearts and Minds: From Vygotsky to Vivian Paley and Beyond
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Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Barbosa De Sa, Aline; Ilgaz, Hande; Brockmeyer, Carolyn – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2010
This article argues that Vygotsky's analysis of children's play and of the ways it can serve as a powerful matrix for learning and development has two important implications that are not always fully appreciated. First, children's social pretend play can promote development both in the domains of cognition and language "and" in…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Practices, Interpersonal Competence, Teaching Methods
Emergent Literacy: Writing and Reading. Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Nature of Writing Series.
Teale, William H., Ed.; Sulzby, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on the not-yet-conventional ways in which young children write and read--their nature, contexts, and significance for continuing literacy development, this book presents the perspective that children's early reading and writing behaviors are not pre- anything, but are integral parts of an incipient language process. Following an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading