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Neaum, Sally – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
Pre-school children's engagement with activities in child-initiated play is taken to be an important mediating factor in their learning. The adult's role in supporting and enhancing children's play is an area of significant study. However, how children play when play is child-initiated, and how this maps to our assumptions and expectations about…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Child Language
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Werdiningsih, Dyah – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018
The phenomenon of language choice undergone by children is a form of social behaviour formed by individual behaviour that refers to the patterns of culture in the community. Based on this idea, the paper examined the tendency of children's language choice, the reasons of tendency, and its influences on children's behaviour in everyday life.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Pindiprolu, Sekhar; Boggs, Teresa – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
Children with speech and language delays are at a high risk for future reading difficulties (Al Otaiba & Smartt, 2003). Hence, it is vital to identify effective language interventions for children with language delays that can be embedded in their daily routines. This study examined the effects on parental use of language strategies (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Usage, Parent Influence, Language Skills
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Kwon, Kyong-Ah; Bingham, Gary; Lewsader, Joellen; Jeon, Hyun-Joo; Elicker, James – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: Little empirical research examines relations among the quality of both mothers' and fathers' social emotional and linguistic support of toddlers across multiple parent-child interaction contexts. Objective: The current study investigated the influence of parent gender (mother vs. father) and activity setting (structured task vs. free…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Play, Child Language, Child Rearing
Delaney, Elizabeth M.; Ezell, Sara S.; Solomon, Ned A.; Hancock, Terry B.; Kaiser, Ann P. – 1997
Developed as part of the Milieu Language Teaching Project at the John F. Kennedy Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, this KIDTALK Behavior-Language Coding Protocol and manual measures behavior occurring during adult-child interactions. The manual is divided into 5 distinct sections: (1) the adult behavior codes describe…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Behavior