scholarly journals PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES AMONG GHANAIAN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: A CASE STUDY OF NEW ELITE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Kwabena Adubofour ◽  
Daniel Afrifa-Yamoah ◽  
Yaa Amponsah Owusu-Afriyie
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
School Children ◽  
International School ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
The Right ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Cluster Reduction

The study focused on ascertaining the phonological processes that characterize the speech patterns of some selected preschool children. Data was collected from a sample of ten (10) pupils from ages 1-5 spanning the accepted age range for pupils to be in preschool in Ghana. Productions of the participants on words were recorded and later analyzed to determine the phonological processes present. It was found that the phonological processes that characterized the speech of the sample are syllable structure processes (e.g. cluster reduction); substitutions; and insertions. Further, it was found that age has a role to play in the presence of phonological processes in the speech of an individual. It was found however that some of the pupils were able to correctly articulate sounds when they were repeated to them. The study recommends that this study be extended to other school children in the country as well as teachers and other stakeholders towards ensuring the school-going children learn English pronunciation the right way. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0897/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Developmental Phonology

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra A. Preisser ◽  
Barbara W. Hodson ◽  
Elaine P. Paden
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Phonological Development ◽  
Phonological Process ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Middle Group ◽  
Cluster Reduction

Utterances of 60 normally developing children, who were within 6 months of their second birthdays, were analyzed for occurrences of phonological processes. The subjects were divided equally into three chronological age groups: (a) 1:6–1:9, (b) 1:10–2:1, and (c) 2:2–2:5. The most prevalent phonological processes evidenced by all three groups were cluster reduction and deviations involving liquids (e.g., gliding). Phonological process percentage-of-occurrence means were considerably lower for the middle group than for the youngest group, with the most dramatic differences occurring for syllable reduction and postvocalic singleton omission. Potential clinical applications of the data for ascertaining what constitutes disordered phonological development in preschool children are discussed, as well as implications for specifying remediation priorities.

scholarly journals Phonological Processes in A 18-Months Bilingual Toddler

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Agung Setiyono ◽  
Lia Maulia Indrayani ◽  
Ypsi Soeria Soemantri
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
First Words

<em>The toddler’s first words were unintelligible speech by adult. This study was conducted to investigate the language development undergone by a 18-months bilingual toddler. The study of language development had two perspectives in terms of clinical and linguistic perspective. This study was a linguistic perspective to find out the language development processes especially in phonological processes undergone by a 18-months bilingual toddler. This study employed descriptive case study as the method with observation and video recording as the data collection. The participant of this study was a 18-months Javanesse-Indonesian toddler. The data were collected for 30 days. The data were categorized and analyzed based on </em><em>Ingram's theory (1976)</em><em>. The result revealed that there were three categories of phonological processes undergone by 18-months Javanesse-Indonesian toddler such as substitution, assimilatory, and syllable structure processes. The syllable structure processes with initial consonant deletion is the most dominant types of phonological processes. The results are expected to enrich the study of language development especially in a 18-months Javanesse-Indonesian toddler in which the information will benefit for the practicing clinicians.</em>

scholarly journals Can Pre-school Children Learn Programming and Coding Through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Critten ◽  
Hannah Hagon ◽  
David Messer
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Action Research ◽  
School Children ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Scoping Study ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
Guided Play

AbstractGuided play activities were developed so that coding clubs could promote computational thinking skills in preschool children. The clubs involved fifteen children aged between 2 and 4 years,  including a group of children with communication difficulties. The children took part in an action-research scoping study over three coding clubs involving six 45–60-min sessions. The activities were developed to teach computational skills and, ultimately, concepts of programming and coding. The findings suggested that the children began to develop many of the skills necessary for programming and coding as well as computational thinking skills such as collaboration, logical thinking and debugging algorithms. However, they found programming specific algorithms into Bee-Bots complicated and they needed support from adults to direct the robots along routes on simple maps. Overall, the guided play activities could be used in nurseries and preschool establishments to teach early computational thinking skills.

The Influence of Wharfs on School Children: A Case Study of Portee Wharf in Freetown, Sierra Leone

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Alhaji Bakar Kamara
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
School Children ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Control Problems

The focus of this research is to investigate the influence of wharfs on school children. Therefore it will report the findings of the result on the influences of wharfs on school children with specific case on Portee Wharf in Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa. In this regard, the introduction describes the research area, stating the statement of the problem, the overall goal and specific objectives that will be attained in this study, justification for selecting the topic, problems to be encountered during the course of carrying out this research and major influences. Besides, an indication of the methods used to investigate the topic will also be highlighted. Moreover, the studies will analyze the actual responses of the respondents of the activities of the wharf on school-going children. It will address the questionnaire in accordance with the following: Background information of respondents, this investigated areas such as sex, age, religion, occupation and tribe; It enquires about the activities of the wharfs, reasons and consequences of children engaged in wharfs and strategies to control problems that may emanate from the wharf. The paper will show the findings, gives the summary, conclusion and recommendations of problems identified while carrying out the research.

Pengenalan Literasi Sampah Pada Anak-Anak Melalui Video Dan Permainan

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Septin Puji Astuti ◽  
Ardhi Ristiawan ◽  
Annida Unnatiq Ulya ◽  
Purwono Purwono ◽  
Nurwulan Purnasari
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
Game Simulation ◽  
Waste Separation ◽  
The Right

Environmental education creates environmental behaviour of people. Children are social agent who plays prominent role for shaping future life. In order to create environmental consciousness generation environmental education should be delivered to children. This paper reports community engagement activity through providing environmental education for first to third grade of primary school children. The delivery process of environmental education to children was transferred through movies and games. Two movies were played to children have attracted them to understand of the prominent of putting trash to the right litter bin. Meanwhile, game simulation for practicing waste separation resulted 96% of children were able to put rubbish in the right litter: organic, paper and plastic litter. Children who did wrong argue that they made mistakes due to time limit which influenced them to put to the right litter.

The Calculation of Turbulent Diffusion Coefficients in Aquatic Ecosystems

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 3903-3907
Author(s):  
Galina Marusic ◽  
Valeriu Panaitescu
Keyword(s):  
Transport Equation ◽  
Turbulent Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Coefficients ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
The Right ◽  
Prut River

The paper deals with the issues related to the pollution of aquatic ecosystems. The influence of turbulence on the transport and dispersion of pollutants in the mentioned systems, as well as the calculation of the turbulent diffusion coefficients are studied. A case study on the determination of turbulent diffusion coefficients for some sectors of the Prut River is presented. A new method is proposed for the determination of the turbulent diffusion coefficients in the pollutant transport equation for specific sectors of a river, according to the associated number of P�clet, calculated for each specific area: the left bank, the right bank and the middle of the river.

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