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Lars Holm; Annegrethe Ahrenkiel – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Inspired by research in language play and linguistic ethnography, this article examines children's language play in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a locally situated generic practice created through children's semiotic repertoires. The article is based on video-recorded linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish day care centre.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Child Language
Alexandra Diamond – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
This qualitative ethnographic research explores baby talk (BT) and ontology of infancy in a small, rural Indo-Fijian community via semistructured interviews with mothers about their children's language learning, mothers' narratives about their photographs of their young children engaged in everyday language, and audio- and video-recordings of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition
Edber Enrique Dzidz Yam; Barbara Blaha Pfeiler – First Language, 2024
This article explores the role of the reportative BIN in Yucatec Maya language acquisition and socialization among children aged 4 years and above, focusing on their interactions during pretend play. Building upon prior research on caregivers' strategic use of BIN, the study aims to elucidate the nuanced meanings and functions of the reportative…
Descriptors: Native Language, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Child Language
Mastin, J. Douglas; Voght, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study analyzes how others engage rural and urban Mozambican infants during naturalistic observations, and how the proportion of time spent in different engagements relates to infants' language development over the second year of life. Using an extended version of Bakeman and Adamson's (1984) categorization of infant engagement, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Infants, Vocabulary Development
Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
Adams, Gail Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In neurotypical infants, genetically-specified attachment/attention mechanisms underpin the motivation to interact, which enables the acquisition of socio-cultural norms for language and accounts for the efficacy of socialization processes (Lee et al., 2009; Schumann, 2013). In children with autism, as in second language acquisition,…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Language Acquisition
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
Winskel, Heather; Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn; Yangklang, Peerapat – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2006
The present study reports preliminary findings on the elicitation strategies used by Thai and English caretakers when eliciting past event narratives from pre-schoolers. Ten Thai and ten English-speaking caretaker-child dyads were recruited from Bangkok, Thailand and from Sydney, Australia. Caretakers were asked to elicit past event narratives…
Descriptors: Socialization, Speech Communication, Foreign Countries, Thai
Paugh, Amy L. – 1999
A study examined language socialization in Dominica (West Indies), focusing on the use of a French-based creole, Patwa, in a situation of linguistic and social change. Despite claims that Patwa is integral to Dominican identity, rural caregivers choose to speak English to language-learning children, contributing to rapid attrition of Patwa.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Creoles, English
Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US
Aukrust, Vibeke Grover – Journal of Child Language, 2004
Recent studies have suggested that cultures vary in subtle ways in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce. Twenty-two three-year-old children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway and Cambridge, Massachusetts were observed during mealtime with the aim of identifying talk-focused talk. The analysis distinguished talk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition

Crago, Martha B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
The role of cultural context in the communicative interaction of young Inuit children, their caregivers, and their non-Inuit teachers was examined in a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted in two small communities of arctic Quebec. Focus was on discourse features of primary language socialization of Inuit families. (32 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis