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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that dynamic assessment based instruction increases children’s learning by using
a quasi-experimental research design in Korea. In this study, dynamic assessment is defined as a measurement method of the
zone of proximal development (ZPD) as well as the qualitative and quantitative diagnostic information for individual children.
In addition, dynamic assessment based instruction is defined as a teaching method using the diagnostic information types in
order to increase children’s learning. In this study, 59 children between the ages of 4 and 5 participated. Three types of
number concept achievement tests (pre-test, parallel test, and post-test) for each age group were developed and the content
validity, face validity, and split-half reliability were examined. After conducting the pre-test, the children of each age
group were divided into an experimental group and a control group. Dynamic assessment based instruction regarding number concepts
was undertaken only with the experimental group for 4 weeks. Both groups took a post-test after completing the 4 weeks of
classes. The ANCOVA technique wa ls used for data analysis. The result of this study shows that dynamic assessment based instruction
has a significant effect on children’s learning of number concepts (in the case of 4-year-old children, F = 12.34, p<0.01;
5-year-old children, F = 20.03, P<0.01). Therefore, dynamic assessment based instruction should be used widely for children’s
cognitive learning. 相似文献
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Ana Schaller Lisa Oglesby Rocha David Barshinger 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):351-356
A study of Mexican immigrant mothers of young children in the AVANCE-Dallas early childhood intervention program demonstrates
that low-educational parents often exhibit ambitious attitudes about educational achievement for their children. Though they
lack an extensive academic background, which places their children at risk for low education, their positive attitude manifested
in daily pro-educational behaviors overcomes their low education level because they both motivate their children to pursue
academic success and participate in their children’s learning. The best way to capitalize on immigrant parents’ educational
drive for their children is to partner with them—either through an intervention program or through early childhood educators’
interaction with parents—by showing them how their participation in their children’s learning through concrete activities
(such as regular mother–child conversation, daily reading, and playtime activities that teach developmental skills) may increase
their chances of achieving academic success. 相似文献
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This paper examines important factors in maximizing children’s experiential learning in the context of inquiry-based children’s
museums. Learning is understood as situated in physical, social, and interactive context that is best achieved when children
have opportunities to engage in play-based inquiry. Recommendations for maximizing children’s learning in museums, supporting
children’s interactions with peers and adults, and offering affordances for children’s play are discussed. 相似文献
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the predictive value of a dynamic test of English and French lexical specificity on at-risk reading classification in 13 at-risk and 44 not at-risk emerging English (L1)–French (L2) bilingual Grade 1 children (M = 75.87 months, SD = 3.18) enrolled in an early French immersion program in Canada. Lexical specificity was assessed with a computerized word learning game in which children were taught new English (e.g., “foal” and “sole”) and French (e.g., bac “bin” and bague “ring”) word pairs contrasted by minimal phonological differences. The results indicated that the dynamic test of lexical specificity in English contributed significantly to the prediction of children’s French at-risk reading status at the end of Grade 1 after controlling for French phonological awareness and nonverbal reasoning skills. However, French lexical specificity did not predict children’s reading risk classification in French after controlling for French phonological awareness. Thus, it may be feasible to identify at-risk status in emerging bilinguals using dynamic measures in their stronger language. 相似文献
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Andrea DeBruin-Parecki 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,36(5):385-392
Family literacy programs abound today, and many try to be all things to all participating families. Funding has eroded for
programs of long length and shorter length programs need a specific focus to aim for a modicum of success. This article provides
an overview of the importance of interactive reading for children’s future success in school, providing clear reasons for
having it as a program focus. Specific research-based interactive reading behaviors which act as program objectives and a
linked interactive reading assessment for accountability purposes are described. Methods of serving and recruiting diverse
families are also explored. An example of a program is provided to demonstrate how to design a family literacy program of
manageable length that leads to measurable gains in joint reading behaviors. 相似文献
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This article examines the role elementary school children’s spontaneous metaphors play in learning science. The data consists
of tape recordings of about 25 h from five different schools. The material is analysed using a practical epistemology analysis
and by using Dewey’s ideas on the continuity and transformation of experience. The results show the rich and varied meanings
that children put into their spontaneous metaphors. Their metaphors deal with facts as well as norms and aesthetics in relation
to the science content taught and they influence learning both through what is made salient, as well as through their relations
to the children’s possibilities of proceeding with their undertakings. Often one and the same metaphor encompassed all these
cognitive, aesthetic and normative aspects at the same time. It is discussed how this rich meaning can be cultured in a productive
way, and how the children’s spontaneous metaphors, with all their relations, can be used to enhance conceptual learning and
also learning about the nature of metaphor use in science. Through their connection with various experiences of the children,
it is also shown how children’s spontaneous metaphors have the potential to enliven and humanise the subject. 相似文献
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The researchers addressed two questions: (1) Does maternal reading mediation and family home literacy environment (HLE) relate
to children’s emergent literacy (EL) level? and (2) Do the relationships among these variables differ as a function of socioeconomic
strata (SES) level. A total of 94 5–6-year-old children, 47 from low SES (LSES) and 47 from high (HSES) families, and their
mothers participated. Mother–child interactions while reading an unfamiliar book were videotaped and their verbal expressions
were coded for extracting maternal mediation level. Children’s independent EL level was assessed prior to the interaction.
Compared with the LSES group, HSES children showed higher EL levels and their homes had a richer literacy environment. Maternal
mediation level differed by SES: LSES mothers paraphrased text more often; HSES mothers’ higher mediation level included a
discussion of the written system and making connections beyond the text. In the HSES group, maternal mediation level and HLE
related to children’s EL; no such relationships appeared in the LSES group. Results are discussed in terms of children’s socio-economic
background and their reading experiences. Implications for researchers and educational practices about the relationships between
children’s literacy development, SES, HLE, and parental mediation are discussed. 相似文献
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Angela K. Salmon 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(5):457-461
Conscious of the interplay between nature and nurture in determining a child’s individuality and success in life, the author
embarked a group of teachers in an action research project towards nurturing a culture of thinking in young children. Considering
the positive effects of routines in early learning experiences, the research consisted in implementing thinking routines to
engage young children’s minds in thinking activities. The study took place in two Reggio-inspired schools where participating
teachers documented children’s work as part of their teaching. The documentation was a key element to make children’s thinking
visible as they installed the culture and language of thinking in their classrooms. The study found that thinking routines
build up positive attitudes about thinking and learning. By re-visiting their documented work children developed metacognitive
and critical thinking skills which make them more alert to situations that call for thinking. 相似文献
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Liv Gjems 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(4):271-278
As a genre of talk, narratives represent important building blocks in children’s learning in many fields. The purpose of the
study presented in this article is to examine how teachers can encourage children’s learning about people’s beliefs through
narrating. Narratives play an important part in children’s learning to understand other people and how they will act according
to what they believe, think or know. This study is based on video observations of six children, 3 and 4 years old, and their
spontaneous personal narratives told to teachers over a period of 8 months. The narrative analysis revealed that in most of
the narratives the teachers were passive listeners or were concerned about the structure of events. The teachers seldom asked
questions about the children’s mental state or disagreed with the child in ways that revealed their different beliefs. Suggestions
about implications of this study are that early childhood teacher education should focus on talking with children about what
they may think or believe concerning narrated events, and also reveal what they think and believe themselves. 相似文献
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Katherine Becker 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(2):107-114
The purpose of this study was to explore patronage and usage of the children’s section of a public library. Patrons of the
children’s section of a public library in a small Northern Arizona city were observed for a total of 24 h over 12 sessions.
Analytic induction was used to formulate categories based on field notes made during these observations. An observation of
a story time session was also conducted. Data from an interview with a librarian was triangulated with observational data.
In terms of patronage, the clear majority of parents/adult caregivers accompanying a child or children to the children’s section
were observed to be female and speaking English. In terms of usage, the following three categories of early learning were
identified from the data: early literacy learning; learning how to use a library; and other developmentally appropriate learning.
Study results offer insight into both the role of females in the intergenerational transmission of literacy and the rich learning
young children experience at the library. At a time of library cutbacks and closures across the United States, this study
speaks to the continued relevance of the children’s section of the public library in providing free early learning experiences
during the pivotal birth to five age range. 相似文献
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This study was conducted in a Reggio inspired child care classroom of 4-year olds where the fundamental principles of Reggio
Emilia preschools are interpreted for a Canadian context. Qualitative case study methodology was employed to investigate how
social interaction plays a role in young children’s learning processes. Drawing on social constructivist views of children’s
learning and socialization, children’s discussions and interactions within a preschool learning group were examined. Examination
of children’s discourse is valuable not only for understanding individual and group learning experiences but also for illuminating
children’s agency and their active roles in their own learning. The study focused on the in-depth study of six children’s
activities during a ‘Shades of Pink’ project. As the project, ‘Shades of Pink’ unfolded, the children faced cognitive conflict while they were talking about the details of Monet’s painting, but worked
toward building common understandings. In this study, children are considered to be meaning makers and active participants
in their own learning processes. In addition, the relationships between children became a context in which the co-construction
of theories, interpretations and various understandings of reality took place. Small group work became a basis for creating
unity, a space in which thoughts took shape as well as a way to compare interpretations; with the result that new thoughts
and meanings were produced. 相似文献
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Nora Scheuer Monserrat de la Cruz Juan Ignacio Pozo 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2002,17(2):101-114
This study investigates four- to six-year-old children’s conceptions of learning, by applying the lexicometric method to their oral responses to questions about their learning of drawing, in an individual interview at school. Interviews were videotaped and fully transcribed. Subjects were 26 children from a middle-class background attending public schools in Argentina (in a four-year-old class, a five-year-old class and first grade in elementary school). Differences among groups are described on the basis of correspondence analysis and modal response procedures. Such differences are then systematised into several interrelated dimensions regarding changes in children’s conceptions of learning to draw, namely: learning agency as the internalisation of social mediation, nature of both learner’s and teacher’s actions and mental states, learning goals and temporal frame of reference. Thus, three main conceptions are identified: external agency, external/internal agency and internal agency conceptions, which are associated to the three different school grade groups studied. 相似文献
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The Ministry of Education and Culture in Zimbabwe has introduced an intervention into the school curricula to complement the
already existing mechanisms in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The literature in this programme is said to be designed to develop
children’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS and to maximise both individual and community commitment to the safest protective behaviour
possible. This paper argues that despite the Ministry’s efforts there is a dearth of such literature which would depict human
relations and experiences in the context of HIV/AIDS in the corpus of Zimbabwean children’s literature in schools. It proposes
that more fiction about HIV/AIDS could effectively complement the current non-fictional texts used in most Zimbabwean schools.
This paper seeks therefore, to clarify the need for fictional narratives in which the disease plays a part since they will
provide the main context in which young children learn to cope with the realities associated with HIV/AIDS through education.
It posits that Zimbabwean children’s literature should also depict the conceptual framework within which health, human interaction
and sexuality are understood in relation to the epidemic.
Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi is with the department of English and Communication, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She teaches
Renaissance and 20th century English literature and autobiography. A holder of a Master of Arts degree in English from the
University of Zimbabwe, her research interests include children’s literature and autobiography. Currently, she is writing
a book on Zimbabwean female (auto) biographies.
Juliet Sylvia Pasi holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe. She teaches Communication and
African literature in the department of English and Communication at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Currently, she
is researching on aspects of orality in Zimbabwean children’s literature and the mediation of gender identities in African
literature. 相似文献
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Explicit instruction in orthographic structure and word morphology helps Chinese children learn to write characters 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Jerome L. Packard Xi Chen Wenling Li Xinchun Wu Janet S. Gaffney Hong Li Richard C. Anderson 《Reading and writing》2006,19(5):457-487
Previous research in alphabetic languages had shown that children learning to write are sensitive to morphological information, and that it serves as a resource that they draw upon as they acquire writing skills. In Chinese as well, sensitivity to morphological and orthographic information had been found to predict children’s ability to read characters. The present study investigated whether raising children’s awareness of the morphemic and orthographic structure of Chinese words would lead to beneficial results in their learning to write Chinese. An experimental group of 144 first graders from two primary schools in Beijing, China were given instruction designed to increase their knowledge of the orthographic and morphological structure of Chinese words. After two semesters, the experimental group’s ability to copy Chinese characters and to write them from memory were both found to be significantly better than a control group. Theoretical implications are discussed, including how writing benefits from the types of linguistic knowledge that underlie lexical storage and retrieval in reading and speech. Educational implications are also discussed, such as how drawing children’s attention to the morphemic components of Chinese words and the systematic features of Chinese orthography provides them with multiple sources of information they may utilize in learning to write. 相似文献
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The aim of this paper is to valuate the applicability of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and the concept of dynamic assessment
to the problem of assessing reading comprehension in English as a third language (L3). The study was conducted with immigrant
students from Ethiopia studying at pre-academic centers in Israel. The assessment procedure included a pre-test, mediation,
and post-test. The pre-test was based on a standard reading comprehension placement exam. Based upon the pre-test material,
a very detailed analysis of the required pre-existing knowledge and necessary strategies was then mediated to the students.
The post-test was identical to the pre-test regarding structure, requirements in terms of pre-existing knowledge and strategies,
length, etc., but with different content. The results demonstrated: (1) A dynamic assessment procedure significantly improved
the text comprehension performance of L3 students; (2) The dynamic assessment procedure added information regarding students’
learning potential over and beyond their initial performance level; (3) The learning potential profile of immigrants from
Ethiopia is somewhat different from that of non-immigrant students. 相似文献
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Ni Chang 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(3):187-193
It has been observed that many young children like making marks on paper and that they enjoy the activity. It is also known
that children’s drawings are vehicles for expression and communication. Therefore, it would be logical and reasonable for
teachers to incorporate children’s drawings into building science concepts. To demonstrate how drawings are utilized to help
a child to acquire a science concept, the article first presents a vignette of an interaction between an adult and a 5-year-old
boy, focusing on the science concept of the physical characteristics of a spider. It is then followed by several analytical
explanations of how drawings build children’s understandings. Not only are the introduced strategies useful for one-on-one
interactive communication, but also applicable to a small group of young children. The article ends with the specifics of
how these strategies were applied to a group of four children in their acquisition of the science concept of the water cycle. 相似文献
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Marjaana Kangas 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(3):205-223
This grounded-theory study involved how Finnish children describe their ideal school and learning environment and considers
how their notions should be valued in the development of schools to better respond to the challenges of the future. The school
children, aged 10–12 years, participated in the study by writing a story about a school in which they would be happy to study.
Ninety-three children’s stories were coded and analysed, and a model of the ideal school and learning environment based on
their ideas was developed. This model school, called a Broadening and Empowering Learning Environment, is designed to contribute
to children’s physical, educational, cultural and socio-emotional well-being, offers opportunities for fantasy and innovation,
and employs creative and sports-based learning methods, among others, in both formal and informal settings. The study showed
that children, as educational stakeholders, are well aware of the potential of modern schools and of the different aspects
that would enhance their ability to learn and their satisfaction with schooling. 相似文献
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Karin I. E. Dahlin 《Reading and writing》2011,24(4):479-491
This study examines the relationship between working memory and reading achievement in 57 Swedish primary-school children
with special needs. First, it was examined whether children’s working memory could be enhanced by a cognitive training program,
and how the training outcomes would relate to their reading development. Next, it was explored how differential aspects of
working memory are related to children’s reading outcomes. The working memory training yielded effects, and these effects
appeared beneficial to children’s reading comprehension development. Working memory measures were found to be related with
children’s word reading and reading comprehension. The results show that working memory can be seen as a crucial factor in
the reading development of literacy among children with special needs, and that interventions to improve working memory may
help children becoming more proficient in reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Because the spelling of many words in the English language (and in many other languages as well) depends on their morphemic structure, children have to have some knowledge about morphemes in order to learn to read and write. This raises the possibility that children gain much of their explicit knowledge about morphemes as a direct result of learning to read and to spell. We report two large-scale longitudinal studies that support the idea of this kind of causal connection. In the first study children’s success in spelling the inflexion at the end of regular past verbs predicted their performance in two morphological awareness tasks a year later. In the second study the children’s consistency in spelling morphemes predicted their ability to define new words on the basis of their morphemic structure. We conclude that the experience of learning to read and write does affect people’s knowledge of morphemes, and we argue that the causal relationship between morphemic knowledge and reading and writing is probably a two-way one. 相似文献
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Chiou-hui Chou 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(4):529-541
Teaching English in elementary schools has been an important educational policy in Asian countries over the past several decades.
This study investigates how in-service teachers in elementary schools conceptualize their practical knowledge about English
teaching in Taiwan. It provides examples of experiences and practical knowledge that English teachers have developed in their
own contexts. The practical knowledge of teachers was investigated using a qualitative case study. Three in-service teachers
participated in this study. Data include interviews, classroom observations, teachers’ reflective journals, and teaching materials.
The study provides practical principles and rules of practice for elementary EFL teachers. It offers insights that policy
makers need to consider in setting up a sound English teaching and learning program for elementary schools in EFL contexts. 相似文献