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Direct linkKilia, Maria; Zacharos, Konstantinos; Ravanis, Konstantinos – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Do early childhood education children comprehend photographs as spatial representations and are they able to use them to obtain information about space? Can they identify the location where the shooting was done? Can they use photographs to identify the positions where objects are located? These are the research questions that this article aims to…
Descriptors: Photography, Information Sources, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
Gjems, Liv – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study is to focus on interactionally developed explanations in everyday conversations as important pedagogical contexts. The research question is: "How do teachers invite children to participate in co-constructions of explanations in everyday conversations and what may children learn from this?" Learning to explain…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Speech Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis
Hoffman, Jessica L. – Reading Teacher, 2011
The new age of digital media and information technologies demands more complex interpretive meaning-making from readers than ever before. Early childhood teachers must therefore incorporate higher-level literacy instruction focused on interpretative meaning to prepare students to meet these increasing literacy demands. This study redesigned the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Reading Aloud to Others, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
Ganea, Patricia A.; Saylor, Megan M. – Child Development, 2007
Do infants use past linguistic information to interpret an ambiguous request for an object? When infants in this research were shown 2 objects, and asked for 1 with an indefinite request (e.g., "Can you get it for me?"), both 15- and 18-month-olds used the speaker's previous reference to an absent object to interpret the request. The 18-month-olds…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Infants, Interpretive Skills, Figurative Language
Pena, Elizabeth D. – Child Development, 2007
In cross-cultural child development research there is often a need to translate instruments and instructions to languages other than English. Typically, the translation process focuses on ensuring linguistic equivalence. However, establishment of linguistic equivalence through translation techniques is often not sufficient to guard against…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Linguistics, Validity, Child Development
Thorpe, Kirsten; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 2006
Three studies investigated how 24-month-olds and adults resolve temporary ambiguity in fluent speech when encountering prenominal adjectives potentially interpretable as nouns. Children were tested in a looking-while-listening procedure to monitor the time course of speech processing. In Experiment 1, the familiar and unfamiliar adjectives…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Adults, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
