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Phillips, Beth M.; Zhao, Yuting; Weekley, M. Jane – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study reports initial descriptive and validity results of a new early childhood classroom observation measure, the Classroom Language Environment Observation Scales (CLEOS), designed to capture teachers' use of both implicit language supports (e.g., incidental scaffolding and shared reading) and more explicit language…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Correlation, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
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Barnes, Erica M.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study examines lexical- and sentence-level dimensions of academic language to describe teachers' natural use of academic language and its association with vocabulary growth in 489 at-risk 4-year-olds enrolled in Head Start preschool classrooms. Using transcripts derived from video recordings of book-reading sessions in 52…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Usage, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
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Björklund, Siv; Mård-Miettinen, Karita; Savijärvi, Marjo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Immersion education in Finland is a one-way (monolingual) early total Swedish programme for Finnish-speaking students. This immersion provision is offered at kindergarten level (ages 3-5), at preschool (age 6) and at primary levels (grades 1-9). Here, a brief synthesis of Finnish research studies on the early years in Swedish immersion is first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Swedish, Immersion Programs