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Beth M. Phillips; Chelsea Funari; Felesa Oliver; Jennifer Berrien; Pamela W. Burris; Michael P. Mesa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the context of the critical need to support children's early language development, teacher knowledge may enhance children's opportunities to build linguistic skills. In this study we explored how early childhood teachers' (n = 86) pedagogical content knowledge for language and vocabulary, and their book-reading implementation across the school…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development
Beth M. Phillips; Chelsea Funari; Felesa Oliver; Jennifer Berrien; Pamela W. Burris; Michael P. Mesa – Grantee Submission, 2022
In the context of the critical need to support children's early language development, teacher knowledge may enhance children's opportunities to build linguistic skills. In this study we explored how early childhood teachers' (n = 86) pedagogical content knowledge for language and vocabulary, and their book-reading implementation across the school…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development
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Senechal, Monique – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Evaluates the effect of didactic techniques used during storybook reading on young children's acquisition of new vocabulary introduced in storybooks under three reading conditions: single-reading; repeated-reading and questioning. Findings suggest that didactic techniques used by adults have differential effects on preschoolers' receptive and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Models
Hillman, Judith – 1975
The tradition of reading aloud to children has great intrinsic value and should be continued as part of the language arts program. Five major reasons for reading aloud to children can be gleaned from recent linguistic and psychological research and from folklore and intuition: (1) It allows the modeling of syntactic and phonemic language patterns,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Identification (Psychology), Imitation