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Kwon, Jungmin – Teachers College Press, 2022
This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today's growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author's observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Children, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Birgit Hellwig; Dagmar Jung – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Language documentation efforts are most often concerned with the adult language and usually do not include the language used by and with children. Essential parts of the natural linguistic behaviour of communities thus remain undocumented, and a growing body of literature explores what language documentation, language maintenance, and language…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, Child Language
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Beaupoil-Hourdel, Pauline – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In teacher training curricula, books are presented as an ideal material for building and enriching young children's language. Yet, the routine of reading at home with children is hardly ever mentioned. In this chapter, the author proposes analyses of story-reading activities from a usage-based and first language acquisition perspective. The goal…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language
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Kelly, Barbara F.; Forshaw, William; Nordlinger, Rachel; Wigglesworth, Gillian – First Language, 2015
The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the broadest typological array of languages and language-learning environments if it is to identify potential universals in child language development, and how these interact with socio-cultural mechanisms of acquisition. Yet undertaking FLA research in remote…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics
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De Montfort Supple, Marie; Soderpalm, Ewa – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This article traces the historical foundations of the identification of language disorders in childhood through an international perspective. It describes the development of the profession of speech-language pathology, initially in Western Europe and later in North America. The roles played by key researchers in the area of child language are…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Speech Language Pathology, Foreign Countries
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Kummerer, Sharon E. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
Early intervention programs are developed on the premise that parents or primary caregivers generalize treatment strategies within naturalistic environments. The diverse characteristics of children within early language intervention reinforce the urgency for services that consider the needs of each child within his or her broader social, cultural,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Early Intervention, Caregivers
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Kotby, M. Nasser; El-Sady, Safaa; Hegazi, Mona – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The team of the Unit of Phoniatrics and Logopedics of the Ain Shams University Clinic in Cairo, Egypt, has worked for three and half decades to spread awareness of child language disorders. This involved publications to inform the public, as well as health care professionals, about the needs of children with delayed language, through description…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Publications
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Armstrong, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2009
This article is the text of a keynote address given to the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation at its annual conference in Chicago in February 2009. Three examples of children's linguistic and literary playfulness are examined, two from England and one from the USA. The article explores the radical implications of these examples for primary…
Descriptors: Play, Elementary Education, Linguistics, Language Acquisition
Edwards, Carolyn, Ed.; Gandini, Lella, Ed.; Forman, George, Ed. – Praeger, 2011
Why does the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy feature one of the best public systems of early education in the world? This book documents the comprehensive and innovative approach that utilizes the "hundred languages of children" to support their well-being and foster their intellectual development. Reggio Emilia is a fast-growing…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Theater Arts, Quality of Life, Young Children
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Mroz, Maria – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
The recommendations from the Bercow Review of services for children with speech, language and communication needs (DCSF, 2008a) have significant implications for the training of pre-service teachers who will be expected to be more able to meet the needs of such children. This article explores the potential within the Standards for Qualified…
Descriptors: Identification, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
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Davidson, Christina – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
Talk between students and their teachers is central to learning at school, yet students' competence is often understood as the outcome of instructional talk rather than essential to successful participation in instructional talk. Curriculum frameworks used to attribute students with levels of competence reflect these understandings. This article…
Descriptors: Interaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Knoors, Harr – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
In 1999, Mary Brennan wrote "By recognising the child as, in effect, a "little linguist" we are also recognising the power and effectiveness of the child's linguistic capacity" (Brennan, 1999). The recognition of the power and effectiveness of deaf children's linguistic capacity needs to be taken a step further. Focus should be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, Educational Objectives, Deafness
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Albanese, Ottavia; Belloro, Angelo – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1996
Discusses a school study of the evolution of a child language. A software program was developed to challenge Italian children in sentence structuring, motivate their sentence production in a game, provide feedback on the linguistic structure and the game context, and classify linguistic productions. (26 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childrens Games, Computer Games, Computer Software
Helle, Tuija – 1985
French immersion programs were initiated in Ontario and Quebec 20 years ago in the search for more effective second language instruction methods, and by September 1975 had spread to all Canadian provinces. The emphasis is on communication, with subject matter taught in French. The programs have been very effective, resulting in successful…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
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Arnberg, Lenore – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
To raise a child bilingually, parents may need assistance with increased second language input from outside the home. One way to do this is through the use of mother tongue playgroups for young children. (SL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Ethnic Groups
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