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Rivka Elkoshi – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Within an Orff-based program implemented in Israel, this mixed-methods study examined the effects of age on emerging rhythmic literacy in children. Participants (N = 132) were kindergarteners (n = 45) and first-graders (n = 87) aged 4 to 7.8 years. The participants performed a rhythm entitled "Rhythm-A" through the body and instrumental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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López Assef, Belén; Desmeules-Trudel, Félix; Bernard, Amélie; Zamuner, Tania S. – Child Development, 2021
Research has found mixed evidence for the production effect in childhood. Some studies have found a positive effect of production on word recognition and recall, while others have found the reverse. This paper takes a developmental approach to investigate the production effect. Children aged 2-6 years (n = 150) from a predominantly white…
Descriptors: Child Development, Word Recognition, Recall (Psychology), Whites
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Amy Walker; Casey M. Pennington – Literacy, 2024
In this article, we explore the dynamic interplay of youth agency, spatial justice, and literacy practices across community spaces through micro-analysis of photographs and interviews of children and youth. Through a lens of spatial reclamation, the study investigates how children and youth disrupt adult-designed spaces to restory and reclaim…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy, Safety, Activism
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Jasemin Can; Johanna Kiili; Mari Vuorisalo; Niina Rutanen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article describes the interplay between age and children's resources during the transition from Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. We describe how age operates in the structures of ECEC during the time before the actual transition. We approach the transition to pre-primary education and the relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Lindholm, Markus – Science & Education, 2018
Curiosity is a wonder of the human mind. It goes to the heart of modernity, as a driving force for learning, novel insights, and innovation, both for individuals and communities. In societies dependent on science and development, finding out what promotes or hampers curiosity and wonder in school curricula and science education is accordingly…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children
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Chan, Stephanie C.; Ormandy, Shannon; Stockwell, August; Rehfeldt, Ruth Anne – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2023
Music is a unique form of verbal stimuli (Reynolds & Hayes, "The Psychological Record," 67(3), 413-421, 2017) and the literature has indicated some success in using procedures involving the frame of coordination or stimulus equivalence to teach early piano skills to learners with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Hill et…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teaching Methods
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Bassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
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Hongbin Xie; Hongliu Ouyang; Nik Rosila Nik Yaacob; Daimin Feng; Shuang Wang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
In Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programs, the quality of teacher-child interactions is regarded to be important for children's vocabulary development. However, prior studies on the relationships between teacher and child, as measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), and children's vocabulary skills are inconsistent.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Socioeconomic Status, Meta Analysis
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Leslie Werlinger B.; Maria-Jesus Inostroza A. – HOW, 2024
During the last decades, global interest in learning English as a foreign language has increased, encouraging countries to include it in school education. This trend was followed by the Chilean Ministry of Education, which suggests teaching English based on a communicative approach starting in early childhood education. To foster students'…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Preschool Children, Memory, Teaching Methods
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Emmons, Natalie; Lees, Kristin; Kelemen, Deborah – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Misconceptions about adaptation by natural selection are widespread among adults and likely stem, in part, from cognitive biases and intuitive theories observable in early childhood. Current educational guidelines that recommend delaying comprehensive instruction on the topic of adaptation until adolescence, therefore, raise concerns because…
Descriptors: Young Children, Evolution, Kindergarten, Grade 2
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Broadbent, Hannah J.; Osborne, Tamsin; Mareschal, Denis; Kirkham, Natasha Z. – Developmental Science, 2019
Multisensory tools are commonly employed within educational settings (e.g. Carter & Stephenson, 2012), and there is a growing body of literature advocating the benefits of presenting children with multisensory information over unisensory cues for learning (Baker & Jordan, 2015; Jordan & Baker, 2011). This is even the case when the…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Teaching Methods, Cues, Retention (Psychology)
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Bucci Liddy, Colleen M.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Diaconu-Gherasim, Loredana R.; Hunter, Dietra M. – Educational Studies, 2023
We evaluated whether maternal parenting strategies (maternal achievement-oriented control and maternal monitoring) and maternal teaching strategies are related to children's academic competence in middle childhood. We also assessed whether the relations of maternal parenting strategies with children's academic competence are mediated by maternal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement, Parents as Teachers
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Dobrota, Snježana – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Musical activities in early and preschool age significantly contribute to the overall development of the child. The paper has explored music preferences of preschool children for classical music and "world music." As a part of the research, a general data questionnaire and music preferences questionnaire were used. The research was…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Gardner-Neblett, Nicole; Holochwost, Steven J.; Gallagher, Kathleen Cranley; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Odom, Samuel L.; Bruno, Elizabeth Pungello – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2017
Background: Although shared book reading is seen as an effective way to support children's early literacy and language development, less is known about the factors associated with toddlers' engagement with books. Objective: The goal of the current study was to examine younger and older toddlers' engagement with books during one-on-one reading with…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Toddlers, Emergent Literacy
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Tulviste, Tiia; Tamm, Anni – First Language, 2022
This study explored associations between mothers' language teaching practices and children's language skills concurrently and longitudinally, while also taking into account the children's sex and mothers' education. Estonian mothers of 76 children reported their language teaching practices at child ages 3;0 and 4;0. Children's language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Child Language, Language Skills
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