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Meng, Xianyu; Fleer, Marilyn; Li, Liang; Hammer, Marie – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Although abundant evidence demonstrates that play is the source of development for preschool-aged children in various cultures, few studies have investigated the role of adult-children collective play in supporting the development of children in institutional care settings. This study examined whether and how a play-based programme created…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Residential Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Li, Liang; Fleer, Marilyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
How parent-child interaction effectively supports children's bilingual heritage language development in a shared book-reading practice is an under-researched area. The in-depth study reported in this paper examined an episode of one child, a four-year-old girl and her father, reading an English story in Chinese. Approximately 70 hours of video…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Reading Aloud to Others, Bilingualism