scholarly journals Towards a minor bilingualism: Exploring variations of language and literacy in early childhood education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Martín-Bylund
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
A Minor

scholarly journals Teachers’ Time for Planning, Assessment and Development Connected to Staff Well-Being in Early Childhood Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Heikka ◽  
Sanni Kahila ◽  
Harri Pitkäniemi ◽  
Eeva Hujala
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Work Community ◽  
Important Quality ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Impact

The planning, assessment and development (PAD) of pedagogy carried out by early childhood education (ECE) teachers is an important quality factor in ECE. In Finland, the working hours reserved for PAD tasks for ECE teachers were increased from 8 to 13% in 2018. The purpose of this study was to investigate ECE teachers’ and centre directors’ perceptions of the impact of increased PAD hours on the well-being of ECE staff. Based on the mixed-methods approach, 325 ECE teachers and 107 ECE centre directors participated in the study. The results of the study indicated that, apart from the atmosphere in the work community, the impact of working hours on the well-being at work was positive. In particular, the reform has increased the well-being of teachers at work. The increased PAD hours have had only a minor impact on the well-being of all staff.

scholarly journals How ‘shared’ is shared reading: Book-focused infant–educator interactions in long day-care centres

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Torr
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Material Setting

Children's language experiences in the first two years of life are inextricably connected with their current and future language and literacy development. Research has shown that mother–child shared reading of picture books is a practice that can promote this development. Little is known, however, about the shared reading experiences of infants attending early childhood education and care centres. This naturalistic study analysed the reading experiences of 10 infants observed during a three-hour period as they and their educators went about their typical activities in their early childhood education and care centres. Drawing on Halliday's systemic functional linguistic theory, which proposes a non-arbitrary relationship between language use and features of the material setting, this study analysed two aspects of the infants' shared reading experiences: the tenor (roles and relationships) realised in the educators' use of speech function, and the field (the topic or subject matter) realised in the vocabulary used. The manner in which these contextual variables are realised in the adult–child talk during shared reading affects the pedagogical potential of this practice. The findings reveal that the infants had little opportunity to initiate or participate in book-focused interactions with their educators, with implications for their language and literacy learning opportunities.

scholarly journals TEACHING LITERACY THROUGH PLAY: INDONESIAN EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS PRESPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-184
Author(s):  
Wili Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Instruction And Learning ◽  
Depth Interviews

In Early childhood education, play is considered as the heart of instruction and learning prepare. Play moreover critical in obtaining children language and literacy ability, person with higher level of proficiency have higher opportunity in their life success. This is a qualitative research study analysing teacher's conceptualization of play in the literacy teaching and learning process. An interpretative and descriptive qualitative research is the design of this study. A qualitative study was undertaken because this technique allows researchers with ways and means considering different views of the research subject therefore producing rich, in-depth and elaborate data. This, small research has been conducted in Indonesian settings on the utilize of play in educating proficiency in early childhood instruction classrooms. Information was obtained through one-on-one, one-hour in-depth interviews from a few teachers in five early childhood education institutions. Examination of the information uncovered those early education teachers agree on utilizing play as an instrument in educating literacy concepts

scholarly journals “Interactive Media in English for Math at Kindergarten: Supporting Learning, Language and Literacy with ICT”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Ririn Ambarini ◽  
Arso Setyaji ◽  
Dian Ayu Zahraini
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Learning Language ◽  
Self Learning

Modern society is actively engaged into technology due to educational reasons. Interactive media is considered as an integral part in language learning process to support the efficiency of the study process taking into consideration the needs and achievements of students. Therefore, new trends appear in the education process and technologies have to be successfully integrated by the teachers working in early childhood education institutions. The implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) curriculum at early childhood education is one of the educational sector development efforts to improve and support young learners’ learning, language and literacy with ICT. English for Math activities are designed for kindergarten students so that they can experience the learning of Math in English in fun and exciting ways by creating the atmosphere of learning like playing integrated with ICT which will help the very young learners to understand the learning materials. This discussion is aimed at describing English for Math learning with ICT for kindergarten students. Moreover, the description can become one of the basic forms of the development of interactive learning based on students’ self-learning. Besides, the arrangement of this study is also aimed to improve young learners’ habitual and self-learning.

Early-Childhood Education for the Developmentally Delayed: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Evaluation

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Susan Freedman Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
School Children ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Delayed Diagnosis ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Developmentally Delayed ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Childhood Education

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.

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