Exploring the Role of the Speech-language Therapist in City Centre Preschools
Exploring the Role of the Speech-language Therapist in City Centre Preschools
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探索言语治疗师在市中心幼儿园的作用
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2012
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S. Plessis
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S. Plessis
本研究调查了市中心幼儿教师和幼儿学习者在习得英语作为教学媒介方面所面临的优势和挑战的看法，并利用结果来探索言语语言治疗师在此背景下的作用。本研究以描述性调查为研究设计，结合量化资料搜集方法，并编制问卷作为调查工具。研究结果发现，幼儿园教师的优势包括幼儿所采用的创造性沟通策略和教师的创新技术。人们认识到的挑战包括教师和学生之间的文化和语言不匹配，以及在课堂上造成情绪和行为问题的沟通障碍。研究表明，言语语言治疗师需要考虑和采用服务提供模式，而不是传统的模式与幼儿教师。
This study investigates the perception of the strengths and challenges that face city centre preschool teachers and preschool learners in the acquisition of English as medium of instruction and to use the results to explore the role of speech-language therapists in this context. A descriptive survey, incorporating a quantitative data collection method, was selected as the research design and a questionnaire was developed as a survey instrument. The findings identified the strengths as including the creative communication strategies employed by the pre-schoolers and the innovative techniques of the teachers. Perceived challenges include a cultural and linguistic mismatch between teachers and learners and communication barriers that cause emotional and behavioural problems in classrooms. The study suggests that speech-language therapists need to consider and employ service delivery models instead of traditional models with the preschool teachers.