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Telling Stories Multimodally: What Observations of Parent-Child Shared Book-Reading Activities Can Bring to L2 Kindergarten Teachers' Training
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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
The Specificity Principle in Young Dual Language Learners' English Development
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Sun, He; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Child Development, 2021
This study employs the Specificity Principle to examine the relative impacts of external (input quantity at home and at school, number of books and reading frequency at home, teachers' degree and experience, language usage, socioeconomic status) and internal factors (children's working memory, nonverbal intelligence, learning-related…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Bilingualism
Rocking & Rolling: Supporting Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families. One Language, Two Languages, Three Languages . . . More?
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Prieto, H. Victoria – Young Children, 2009
The belief that a child has to abandon his home language to learn English implies that the young brain has limited learning capacity. Early childhood teachers need to help families understand that children can learn two languages at the same time. What matters is that the infant/toddler is in an effective language-learning environment, whether it…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Usage, Preschool Teachers
Langage parle a l'ecole et dans la famille (The Language Spoken at Home and in School)
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Weil, Dominique – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issue devoted to research and the teaching of French in the elementary school. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Environment, Family Environment
Bilingualism and Schooling Environments.
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Garcia, Eugene E. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
The study involved (1) a sociolinguistic description of Spanish/English use by 10 children (ages two to three) and eight mothers in two different bilingual preschool contexts (instruction and freeplay), and (2) an experimental attempt to encourage the use of Spanish, using Spanish "immersion" in a freeplay setting. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Bilingual Children: From Birth to Teens.
Saunders, George – 1988
The sequel to a personal account of the bilingual development of two children in one family looks at subsequent development and issues in bilingualism for those two and an additional child, occurring over a five-year period. An introductory chapter defines bilingualism and considers briefly its advantages and disadvantages. The second chapter…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language
The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn. First Edition.
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment