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Garraffa, Maria; Smart, Francesca; Obregón, Mateo – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The present study investigated the effect of classroom-based syntactic training on children's abilities to produce passive sentences. Thirty-three monolingual English children (mean age 5;2), were involved in passive-voice training based on storytelling sessions within a priming design. The training was delivered in a classroom setting, with two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, English, Monolingualism
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Lewis, Gwyn; Jones, Bryn; Baker, Colin – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
Following from Lewis, Jones, and Baker (this issue), this article analyses the relationship between the new concept of "translanguaging" particularly in the classroom context and more historic terms such as code-switching and translation, indicating differences in (socio)linguistic and ideological understandings as well as in classroom…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Honig, Alice Sterling – 1999
Based upon the view that parents, home visitors, and teachers in early childhood settings need tools for empowering young children to develop language, this paper examines what adults need to know to guide young children's language development and presents 20 suggestions for enhancing language growth. The paper maintains that adults need to know…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Early Childhood Education