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Fiano, Darcy A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
This seven-month ethnographic case study elucidated a kindergarten student's navigation through her first formal schooling experience with relation to expressive oral language. Gee's theory of Discourses and methodology of discourse analysis were used to examine expressive oral language in use. Two discursive contexts germane to…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Oral Language, Kindergarten, Ethnography
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Falchi, Lorraine T.; Axelrod, Ysaaca; Genishi, Celia – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
This paper draws data from a 5-year ethnographic study of young multilingual (Mixteco/Spanish/English) children in their early childhood classrooms. In this paper, we focus on two of the children and their distinctive paths as they develop language and literacy. Using a sociocultural and multimodal theoretical framework we examine how these two…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Ethnography
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Pardhan, Almina – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
In the current global push to explore the diverse and complex ways in which the school culture contributes to the shaping of young children's gender identity, early childhood teachers' role in this process is an area of concern which has received limited attention. Furthermore, the schooling experiences of early years children in developing world…
Descriptors: School Culture, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Sexual Identity