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Enhancing Language Experiences through Storytelling and the Story Basket
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Ball, Pearl Satarawala – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2013
The Montessori early childhood classroom provides a seamless web of language experiences. As Montessori teachers, they are mindful of the many ways Practical Life, Sensorial, Geography, Science, and Mathematics lessons contribute to and support Language Arts. Within the Language Arts curriculum itself, there are multiple stages of learning. The…
Descriptors: Literacy, Receptive Language, Montessori Method, Story Telling
Language Experiences and Vocabulary Development in Dominican and Mexican Infants across the First 2 Years
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Song, Lulu; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Wu, Irene – Developmental Psychology, 2012
We longitudinally investigated parental language context and infants' language experiences in relation to Dominican American and Mexican American infants' vocabularies. Mothers provided information on parental language context, comprising measures of parents' language background (i.e., childhood language) and current language use during interviews…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Vocabulary Development
Oral Language Competence and the Transition to School: Socio-Economic and Behavioural Factors That Influence Academic and Social Success
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Snow, Pamela – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2014
Oral language competence (skill in everyday talking and listening) is critical in the early years of school in two key respects: it underpins the transition to literacy in the early years, and is the means by which children form and maintain interpersonal relationships in the school setting. In this paper, the role of oral language competence with…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, Syntax, Speech Language Pathology
Reconsidering Compulsory English in Developing Countries in Asia: English in a Community of Northeast Thailand
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Draper, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This article reviews the issue of compulsory English in the Asia-Pacific region and examines the English component of a single-site exploratory study of multilingualism in a disadvantaged ethnic minority (DEM) community of Northeast Thailand. The concept of ethnolinguistic vitality was used as a framework for an analysis of community language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Enrichment, Second Language Learning
Linking Language and Literacy: The Legend of the Bluebonnet
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Nault, Dianne M. – Learning Languages, 2007
In immersion programs, language is not directly taught, but rather embedded into the content of a lesson. The target language is the medium of the lesson, not the object of the instruction. A story provides a language experience and encourages students to participate actively in the lesson. Children are also more apt to learn and retain ideas and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Immersion Programs, Picture Books, American Indians
Something Old Is New Again: Revisiting Language Experience
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Dorr, Roberta E. – Reading Teacher, 2006
Children arrive in classrooms with varied background knowledge, which means that teachers must select instructional methods, materials, and techniques to meet multiple needs. A carefully planned approach that includes direct and explicit instruction--as well as extensive opportunities for reading, writing, speaking, and listening--can help…
Descriptors: Language Enrichment, Language Experience Approach, Literacy, Reading Instruction