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A Worksheet, a Whiteboard, a Teacher-Learner: Leveraging Materials and Colonial Language Frames for Multimodal Indigenous Language Learning
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Engman, Mel M. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
The growing demand for Indigenous language education in the United States often relies on community teachers with widely varying proficiencies as part of local language reclamation efforts. While these English-dominant 'teacher-learners' play a central role in the success of classroom-based K-12 language programs, their classroom experiences and…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Educational Technology, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
Symbolic Representation in Early Years Learning: The Acquisition of Complex Notions
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Veraksa, Aleksander; Veraksa, Nikolay – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This article defines the concepts related to symbolic and sign representations, cognition and learning in the early years. The first study experiment of teaching 33 preschool children (19 boys and 14 girls; M = 68, 5 months) the notion of rainbow phenomenon proved the equal effectiveness of the use of both sign and symbolic tools. The second study…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students