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Smith, Jodie; Levickis, Penny; Eadie, Tricia; Bretherton, Lesley; Conway, Laura; Goldfeld, Sharon – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Variations in parenting, more specifically less responsive and more directive parenting, contribute to language difficulties for children experiencing adversity. Further investigation of associations between specific responsive and directive behaviours and child language is required to understand how behaviours shape language over time…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Language, Mother Attitudes, Mothers
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Bavin, Edith L.; Sarant, Julia; Prendergast, Luke; Busby, Peter; Leigh, Greg; Peterson, Candida – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: To extend our knowledge about factors influencing early vocabulary development for infants with cochlear implants (CIs), we investigated the impact of positive parenting behaviors (PPBs) from the Indicator of Parent Child Interaction, used in parent-child interactions during everyday activities. Method: Implantation age for the sample…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology
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Quinones, Gloria; Pursi, Annukka – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
This study explores "toddling style" in adult-child interaction. Toddling style was conceptualised by Gunvor Løkken in relation to toddlers' playful and social style in peer groups; however, adults' position was rarely explored. Therefore, this article aims to examine adults' emotional and playful support in creating, maintaining and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Video Technology, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Church, Amelia; Bateman, Amanda – Teacher Development, 2020
Here the authors explore everyday teaching strategies that work to implement early childhood curriculum frameworks, using published transcripts of video-recorded data of real-life teacher-child interactions in early childhood centres in Australia and New Zealand. The analysis uses a conversation analysis approach to reveal the sequences of action…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship
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Degotardi, Sheila; Torr, Jane; Han, Feifei – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study investigated the prevalence of pedagogical questions posed by 27 early childhood educators as they interacted with infants in each of two naturally-occurring contexts: book-focused interactions and educator mediated play. The pedagogical questions expressed by educators to infants were coded as "confirm"…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Preschool Teachers, Interaction, Books
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Hughes-Scholes, Carolyn H.; Gavidia-Payne, Susana; Davis, Kate; Mahar, Nicole – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Research has demonstrated that having an understanding of families' everyday routines is important when planning interventions, yet the nature of the information revealed by families about their daily lives has been scarcely documented. The aim of this study was to examine the concerns and priorities of families with a child with a…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Intervention, Infants, Toddlers
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Nicholas, Maria; Paatsch, Louise – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
This paper investigates mothers' views regarding the purpose of shared reading with their two-year-old children, confidence in using printed and electronic texts, and self-reported practice, framed around a focus on mothers' motivation to engage in shared reading with their children. Research into adult-child shared reading experiences has…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others
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Selby, Jane M.; Bradley, Benjamin S.; Sumsion, Jennifer; Stapleton, Matthew; Harrison, Linda J. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
This article evaluates the concept of infant 'belonging', central to several national curricula for early childhood education and care. Here, the authors focus on Australia's Early Years Learning Framework. Four different meanings attach to 'belonging' in the Early Years Learning Framework, the primary being sociopolitical. However, 'a sense of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Attachment Behavior
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Quiñones, Gloria; Ridgway, Avis; Li, Liang – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Evidence was gathered from an Australian long day care project 'Educators of babies and toddlers; developing a culture of critical reflection'. A cultural-historical theoretical approach was sensitively interwoven with visual methodology. The innovative combination of visual methodology and cultural-historical theory involved the creation of three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Axelsson, Emma L.; Swinton, Jaclyn; Winiger, Amanda I.; Horst, Jessica S. – First Language, 2018
When toddlers hear a novel word, they quickly and independently link it with a novel object rather than known-name objects. However, they are less proficient in retaining multiple novel words. Sleep and even short naps can enhance declarative memory in adults and children and this study investigates the effect of napping on children's memory for…
Descriptors: Sleep, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Retention (Psychology)
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Scull, Janet; Page, Jane; Lee, Wan Yi; Murray, Lisa; Gapany, Dorothy; Stewart, Samantha; Murukun, Marilyn; Scannell, Nuala; Lawrence, Rona; Dhurrkay, Jonica; Hayes, Felicity; Burarrwanga, Verity; Chynoweth, Leah; Callahan, Michelle; Goveas, Jessica Noella; Cock, Megan L.; Mentha, Susan; Eadie, Patricia; Sparling, Joseph – TESOL in Context, 2021
For many Indigenous children living in remote communities, the prerequisites to achieving strong language and learning outcomes include the maintenance of their first languages and progress in learning English as an additional language. This paper reports on data from a Linkage study conducted with families at two Families as First Teachers (FaFT)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parents as Teachers, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Mantilla, Ana; Edwards, Susan – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
This paper reports on a systematic review of the literature conducted to inform Early Childhood Australia (ECA) in the development of a national Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies. The review examines empirical studies published between 2012 and 2017 identified through systematic screening to advise adults on appropriate digital…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Video Games
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Page, Jane; Eadie, Patricia – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
There is growing evidence that coaching early childhood educators leads to higher quality teaching practices and improved child learning outcomes. Despite this, there is a lack of Australian evidence on the impact that coaching in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams in early childhood education and care settings has on teacher effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Interdisciplinary Approach, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Improvement
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Miles, Kelly; Yuen, Ivan; Cox, Felicity; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2016
English has a word-minimality requirement that all open-class lexical items must contain at least two moras of structure, forming a bimoraic foot (Hayes, 1995).Thus, a word with either a long vowel, or a short vowel and a coda consonant, satisfies this requirement. This raises the question of when and how young children might learn this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, English, Suprasegmentals
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Dai, Qian; McMahon, Catherine; Lim, Ai Keow – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
Evidence suggests that parental mind-mindedness is important for children's social-emotional development; however, almost all research exploring mind-mindedness has been conducted with families from Western backgrounds. The current study explored cross-cultural differences in mind-mindedness based on observed real-time interactions between urban…
Descriptors: Mothers, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Social Development
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