Teacher-child conversations in preschool classrooms: Contributions to children's vocabulary development
Teacher-child conversations in preschool classrooms: Contributions to children's vocabulary development
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.09.004
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Forston, Lindsay D.
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作者：
Cabell, Sonia Q.;Justice, Laura M.;Forston, Lindsay D.
这项研究使用了一种新颖的方法来检查 44 个学前班教室中师生对话的数量和质量。小组游戏课程被转录、解析为对话，并为教师使用引发和扩展儿童谈话的策略进行编码。第一个研究目的是考察专业发展对教师在与儿童对话时策略使用的影响程度，而第二个研究目的是考虑教师策略使用与学前儿童词汇量增长的关系。关于第二个目标，主要关注的是教师策略使用模式（集中与分散）与儿童收益之间的关系。研究结果表明，专业发展提高了师生在多轮对话、儿童发起的对话和教师策略使用中的参与度。此外，高度集中教师引出和延伸的师生对话与儿童的词汇量增长呈正相关。这项研究增加了我们对学前环境中师生对话的理解，并有助于在识别可能促进儿童语言发展的对话特征方面推进该领域的发展。 (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
This study used a novel method to examine the volume and quality of teacher-child conversations within 44 preschool classrooms. Small group play sessions were transcribed, parsed into conversations, and coded for teachers' use of strategies that elicited and extended child talk. The first research aim was to examine the extent to which professional development impacted teachers' strategy use during conversations with children, whereas the second aim was to consider the way in which teachers' strategy use related to gains in children's vocabulary across the preschool year. Regarding this second aim, of principal interest was the relation between the pattern of teachers' strategy use (concentrated versus distributed) and children's gains. Findings indicated that professional development increased teacher-child engagement in multi-turn conversations, child-initiated conversations, and teachers' strategy use. In addition, teacher-child conversations with a high concentration of teacher elicitations and extensions were positively associated with children's vocabulary gains. This study increases our understanding of what teacher-child conversations look like in preschool settings, and helps to advance the field in terms of identifying features of conversations that may promote children's language growth. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.