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Canut, Emmanuelle; Masson, Caroline; Husianycia, Magali – Language and Education, 2023
Studies that measure the effectiveness of language-training program for children's language development do not clearly identify in adult-child interaction which characteristics of educators' language are most effective, particularly for children over 4 years of age who need to develop complex syntactic skills. Our study aimed to analyze the…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children
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Davidson, Christina; Edwards-Groves, Christine – Language and Education, 2020
The Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) talk sequence dominates whole-class talk in school lessons but frequently provides limited talk options for students. This article examines a variant of the sequence produced by young children and their teacher in an early years' classroom. The multiple-response sequences were identified in classroom…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Feedback (Response)
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Jones, Pauline; Turney, Annette; Georgiou, Helen; Nielsen, Wendy – Language and Education, 2020
This paper arises from research undertaken by educational semioticians and science educators investigating the use of student generated digital artefacts as assessment tasks in pre-service science teacher education. Part of a broader shift toward student-generated media in tertiary science, the use of such tasks is driven by the need to deepen…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Semiotics, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education