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Marie-Pier Gingras; Paméla McMahon-Morin; Stefano Rezzonico; Louise Duchesne – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Verbal interactions between children and educators can support the language development of preschoolers when conversations are of high quality. Educators' conversations with preschoolers are known to be responsive, but they are not always sufficiently complex. Educators' talk and topics may be too simple to propel preschoolers' oral language…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Children, Oral Language
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Anna S. Gibbs; Deborah K. Reed – European Journal of Education, 2025
This content analysis explored children's fictional storybooks and informational science books to determine their differences in high-quality text features that support oral language (OL) development. We also explored the opportunities for OL development in curricular books compared to trade books. Using systematic coding procedures, we evaluated…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Childrens Literature, Textbooks