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Direct linkSin Wang Chong, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, and initiated and implemented in the four nations of the United Kingdom: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By looking at the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Development, Educational Technology, Policy Formation
Peters-Sanders, Lindsey A.; Kelley, Elizabeth S.; Biel, Christa Haring; Madsen, Keri; Soto, Xigrid; Seven, Yagmur; Hull, Katharine; Goldstein, Howard – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This study evaluated the effects of an automated, small-group intervention designed to teach preschoolers challenging vocabulary words. Previous studies have provided evidence of efficacy. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the program after doubling the number of words taught from 2 to 4 words per book. Method: Seventeen…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Intervention, Small Group Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Download full textPeters-Sanders, Lindsey A.; Kelley, Elizabeth S.; Haring Biel, Christa; Madsen, Keri; Soto, Xigrid; Seven, Yagmur; Hull, Katharine; Goldstein, Howard – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: This study evaluated the effects of an automated, small-group intervention designed to teach preschoolers challenging vocabulary words. Previous studies have provided evidence of efficacy. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the program after doubling the number of words taught from 2 to 4 words per book. Method: Seventeen…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Intervention, Small Group Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Crawford, April; Varghese, Cheryl; Oh, Yoonkyung; Guttentag, Cathy; Zucker, Tricia; Landry, Susan; Cummins, Reese-Anna – Early Education and Development, 2022
This pilot study conducted an initial evaluation of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) Infant-Toddler Teacher Training program. The program is unique in three ways: 1) use of an online platform with courses that explain social-emotional, language, and literacy development in young children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Teachers
Benner, Gregory J.; Zeng, Songtian – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The results of previous research on the "Language for Learning" programme suggest that it produces positive effects on the intellectual, language, and social skills of young children with and without disabilities [Benner, G. J., Trout, A., Nordness, P. N., Nelson, J. R., Knobel, M. L., Epstein, A.,…Epstein, M. H. (2002). "The…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems
Whittaker, Andrea; Nelson, Carolyn – New Educator, 2013
This article uses Dewey's (1938) concept of "end in view" to frame one California State University's purposeful action in implementing the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT). The authors provide a chronology of events that reveal the ways in which teacher education faculty were engaged in examining PACT outcomes and…
Descriptors: Faculty, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
van Kuyk, Jef J. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
The dynamic systems theory, a theory that goes beyond Piaget and Vygotsky, looks promising for curriculum development. In this theory it is explained how a curriculum that creates physical and psychological space for play and initiative learning (self-regulation) is being designed and how the teacher can support the enrichment of play and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Play, Systems Approach, Instructional Effectiveness
Gunn, Barbara; Vadasy, Patricia; Smolkowski, Keith – NHSA Dialog, 2011
This article discusses the kinds of instructional activities that young children need to develop basic language and literacy skills based on recent research and program evaluations. This includes approaches to develop alphabetic understanding, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and oral language. Activities and materials from the Pre-kindergarten…
Descriptors: Program Design, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, Young Children
Maggs, Alex; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1979
The three-year Australian study, Follow Through, measured the effects of direct instruction with 103 children (kindergarten or year one) of which 55 were Aboriginal. (DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedCalvert, Donald R., Ed. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1981
The special issue with 21 articles reports a study by the Central Institute of the Deaf (Missouri) to design a small, "ideal" program for elementary age deaf children, given the condition that cost, staff, materials, and space were no problems. (SB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Deafness, Demonstration Programs
Friedman, Myles I. – 1969
This document is an interim evaluation report of language development curriculums in full year Head Start programs operating in the five state area the Research and Evaluation Center serves. One experimental study in language development carried on in cooperation with the Texas and Tulane centers is reported in depth. The study was implemented in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Intervention, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKarnes, Merle B.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1993
PEECH (Programing for Early Education of Children with Handicaps) is a center-based program combining child-initiated and teacher-directed activities for children with mild to moderate disabilities, ages 3-5. Results of an evaluative study at the demonstration site and replication sites revealed participants' improvement in receptive and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedSigurdardottir, M.; Birgisdottir, S. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1998
Details two Icelandic early childhood education projects. "Play and Print" found that increasing print exposure and reinforcing role-play related to reading and writing improved preschoolers' language maturity. The "I Can Do What I Get a Chance to Do" project modified lunch, group time, artwork, and play components of the…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Prentice, Walter C. – 1974
The purpose of this project was to initiate a classroom journal-writing program that would provide children with an opportunity to express themselves freely, and that would offer useful information for improving relationships within the classroom. Both students and teacher kept daily journals for a year. Four simple rules governed the procedure,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Kirkland, Eleanor R. – 1984
"Writing to Read" is a computer based program designed to teach students with learning handicaps to "write to read." The philosophy of the program is that students will learn to read more effectively and efficiently if they are taught to write--to encode their normal language as the initial process in learning to read. Through…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
