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Boivin, Nettie – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted elderly people as a vulnerable and excluded community, and connecting to the younger social media generation requires a shift in intergenerational storytelling performance. Recent research on multimodality has emphasized its benefits for the interactional process in storytelling. This study examines three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Intergenerational Programs, Story Telling, Community Involvement
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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
In this empirical study, we analyse how five-year-old children are socialised into particular interpretive practices indicative of a literate mind. The data come from translation activities where children with their teacher listen to and then talk about how to understand the lyrics to a popular children's song. The setting is a Finnish-Swedish…
Descriptors: Socialization, Translation, Immersion Programs, Finno Ugric Languages
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Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Sairanen, Heidi; Nordström, Alexandra – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
This socioculturally framed case study investigates the digital literacy practices of two young children in their homes in Finland. The aim is to generate new knowledge about children's digital literacy practices embedded in their family lives and to consider how these practices relate to their emergent literacy learning opportunities. The study…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Technological Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment
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Suortti, Outi; Lipponen, Lasse – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
The present study is the first part of a longitudinal research project investigating whether children become more aware of phonemes or rhyming when they learn letters or letter sounds or even begin to read, and if so how. For the present paper, the phonological awareness of young children aged 2-6 years was analyzed, particularly their auditory…
Descriptors: Phonology, Auditory Perception, Phonemes, Rhyme