Thesis (MSL and HT (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / The study investigated the effect of two shared reading programmes on the print awareness of 102 Afrikaans-speaking Grade R learners with language delays. The first shared reading programme focussed on print awareness while the second shared reading programme focussed on content and observable entities. Participants’ print awareness was measured subjectively and objectively, before and after intervention programmes. Results indicated that (i) both methods of shared reading affected and improved the print awareness of the participants; (ii) the participants’ print awareness did not improve optimally in order to acquire reading skills in Grade 1, even after taking part in the 10 week shared reading programme with a focus on print awareness; (iii) participants performed better in an evaluation where demonstration of skills and no verbal response was required; and (iv) participants with poor receptive vocabulary skills demonstrated limited carry-over of print awareness to other artefacts of print, such as the packaging of an iron.

The goal of this project was to develop a reading readiness program which could be implemented into a given kindergarten curriculum. The focus of the paper was to identify the basic, skills necessary for successful reading and to list activities that the classroom teacher could use to increase a child's level of ability in each area. The seven basic skills identified as necessary pre-reading skills were; language development, listening skills, visual discrimination, visual memory, auditory discrimination, auditory memory and perceptual motor development. Over all goals for the project were also developed. Each of the seven areas discussed included; objectives, activities and assessment inventories. Recommendations for the project were discussed In terms of possible other approaches toward reading readiness.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Also available in print.

Thesis (MEd)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / A qualitative investigation into the emergence of literacy among five adult socio-economically disadvantaged subjects in a semi-rural setting complements concerns that a lack of specific forms of cognitive input during pre-school years has a negative impact on later progress in formal schooling. The subjects achieved levels of literacy that enabled them to play leadership roles in their communities although they had experienced limited or no formal education during their formative years. Using a GTM process the researcher identifies seven common themes that emerge from analysis of data from interviews and focus groups that explore the subjects’ perceptions of conditions that had promoted their literacy. These themes suggest that the subjects’ competence in literacy was facilitated by non-cognitive conditions including personal aspirations; resilience; disciplinary regimes in the home; voice; a nurturing mentor; community resources and ability to exercise agency. The researcher concludes that these themes could be important in contributing towards an understanding that developing children’s agency during early childhood may be more significant to achieving effective levels of literacy than the current focus on attaining academic skills at standards that disadvantaged children have difficulty in achieving.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-21T11:25:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Silva Tozzo.pdf: 914325 bytes, checksum: 6322dec5813ae4b71552831ed9d7aec6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-21T11:25:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Silva Tozzo.pdf: 914325 bytes, checksum: 6322dec5813ae4b71552831ed9d7aec6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Introduction: reading aloud by the teacher of early childhood education in the process of formation of the reading child is important and this is emphasized in the oral expressiveness. Objective: to investigate the judgment of children regarding the use of oral expressiveness parameters in reading aloud, at the moments before and after speech-language intervention. Method: this research was carried out in two stages. In the first one, two teachers participated in a workshop that worked with the resources of expressivity oral, in situation of reading aloud. Before and after this intervention, audiograved material was collected in which the teachers read a story. Oral expression parameters were studied in loud reading, such as pause, articulation, resonance, pitch and intensity, as well as questions related to breathing, with a focus on pneumono - articular coordination. In the second stage, this material was presented individually and randomly to 54 children between 5 and 6 years of age regularly enrolled in Pre-II in Early Childhood Education to verify if they perceived a difference in pre- and post-intervention recordings and by which they chose. Those who chose post-intervention were grouped into small groups to justify their choices. The data collected in the first stage were analyzed by the children in the light of a perceptive auditory evaluation. Result: the teachers reported improvement after the intervention with special attention in increasing the time and in the use of the expressive elements. There was a statistically significant association between the hearing condition. In the justifications of the children there was an association of sense and sometimes of sound from their listening. When the occurrences were quantified, it was verified that the expressive effects adopted by the teachers were associated more with the sense of voice (39) than with sound (27). Conclusion: the children, when judging the excerpts from reading aloud, before and after the speech therapy intervention with two teachers, were able to perceive differences in oral expressiveness emphasized more by expressions related to sense / Introdução: a leitura em voz alta realizada pelo professor de educação infantil no processo de formação da criança leitora é importante e essa se dá com ênfase na expressividade oral. Objetivo: investigar o julgamento de crianças quanto ao uso de parâmetros de expressividade oral em leitura em voz alta, nos momentos pré e pós-intervenção fonoaudiológica. Método: esta pesquisa foi realizada em duas etapas. Na primeira, dois professores participaram de uma oficina que trabalhou com os recursos de expressividade oral, em situação de leitura em voz alta. Antes e após essa intervenção, foi coletado material audiogravado em que as professoras leram uma história. Foram trabalhados parâmetros de expressividade oral na leitura em voz alta, tais como, pausa, articulação, ressonância, pitch e intensidade, além de questões referentes à respiração, com enfoque na coordenação pneumofonoarticulatória. Na segunda etapa, esse material foi apresentado individualmente e de forma aleatória para 54 crianças entre 5 e 6 anos de idade regularmente matriculada no Pré II na Educação Infantil para verificar se perceberam diferença nas gravações pré e pós-intervenção e por qual optaram. As que escolheram a pós-intervenção, foram reunidas em pequenos grupos para justificar suas escolhas. Os dados coletados na primeira etapa foram analisados pelas crianças à luz de uma avaliação perceptivo auditiva. Resultado: as professoras referiram melhora após a intervenção com especial atenção no aumento do tempo e no aproveitamento dos elementos expressivos. Houve associação estatisticamente significativa entre a condição ouvida. Nas justificativas das crianças houve uma associação ora do sentido, ora do som a partir de suas escutas. Quantificadas as ocorrências, verificou-se que os efeitos expressivos adotados pelas professoras associaram-se mais ao sentido da voz (39) do que ao som (27). Conclusão: as crianças, ao julgarem os trechos da leitura em voz alta, realizadas antes e após a intervenção fonoaudiológica com dois professores, foram capazes de perceber diferenças na expressividade oral salientadas mais por expressões relacionadas ao sentido

"1994". / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of English and Linguistics, 1995. / Bibliography: leaves 356-373 (pt. 1) / Introduction -- Research in joint book-reading and the discourse of literacy pedagogy -- The study : Part A: Research questions, preliminary analysis and participant selection -- Part B : Data gathering and preparation -- Language, context and semantic variation -- A semantic network for the description of linguistic interaction in joint book-reading -- Reading The three little pigs at home -- Results of the message semantic analysis of the interactive text -- Interpretations -- Joint book-reading in the discourse of literacy pedagogy -- Concluding comments -- Appendices. / The study contributes to the fields of educational linguistics and semantic variation by examining linguistic interaction during joint book-reading between mothers and four-year-old children, and between teachers and Kindergarten classes at the beginning of school. -- Joint book-reading was selected because of its centrality to the metaphor of a partnership between home and school in children's literacy development. The problem for the study was to investigate possible systematic semantic variation in linguistic interaction associated with social class locations of speakers, and relations between any such variants and features of interaction in joint book-reading in Kindergarten. -- A preliminary survey of 427 families in two sociogeographically contrasted sites established that joint book-reading was a common social practice, and gave sufficient indications of variation to justify an intensive socio-semantic study. Two sets of ten mother-child dyads, contrasted for class locations using Bernstein's (1990) theory of class relations, were constructed and recordings of joint book-reading sessions made by mothers. Recordings of interaction in two sets of ten Kindergarten classes in the same socio-geographical areas were made by teachers. -- Vygotsky's theory of semiotic mediation was the general resource used for interpreting children's learning, but it was necessary to resolve problems in the theory in the modelling of contexts for learning, and of mediational means. For this purpose the systemic functional linguistic concept of context of situation, as proposed by Halliday (1978) and expanded by Hasan (in press (a)), was deployed. -- Transcripts of recordings were analysed through a semantic network developed for the study, based on a network proposed by Hasan (1983). -- Semantic variation associated with class locations of families was found across all four metafunctions described within systemic theory, and one variant found to be associated with Kindergarten classroom interaction. The variable semantic features were interpreted as the realization of different principles regulating the individuation of experience, using Bernstein's theories of coding orientation and pedagogic discourse. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / 2 parts (373, 539 p.) ill

The topic of this study was to determine the factors affecting the reading readiness of Grade R learners in selected preschools in Gauteng Province. The purpose of this study was to explore factors that affect the reading readiness of Grade R learners as understood by teachers and mothers. The aim of the study was to establish what factors affect the reading readiness of Grade R learners. The primary research question asked what factors Grade R teachers and mothers find affect reading readiness. The secondary research questions asked how Grade R teachers address these factors in the classroom; who the people involved in the learners’ reading readiness are; and how they contribute to reading readiness. This study employed a multiple case study approach. Data was collected in six preschools in Johannesburg through semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with five Grade R teachers and five mothers of Grade R learners. A focus group discussion with four Grade R teachers was also conducted. The main findings of the study were eight factors affecting the reading readiness of Grade R learners: the learner’s individual developmental level; the learner’s maturity; the learner’s desire to learn to read; the learner’s phonological awareness; the learner’s need for play and kinaesthetics; the learner’s parents’ contributions; the learner’s socioeconomic living conditions; and reading stories to the learner. The implication is that these findings may improve teaching practice and Grade R curriculum development. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

The problem of this study was a comparison of the roles and needs of middle and lower class Thai parents in helping their children's reading development. The sample was selected from the parents of the preprimary schools in Bangkok, Thailand, in the fall of 1986. A total of 366 parents, including 185 from middle class and 181 from lower class, participated in this study.

The aim of the thesis was to clarify how nursery teachers develop children's comprehension of the text read aloud and how they evaluate the possibility of using reading strategies to support children's comprehension during reading. In the theoretical part, I focused on defining the concept of reading literacy and pre-literacy, approaching the concept of the development of reading pre-literacy in the Czech Republic and clarifying the concept of comprehension of the text. Subsequently, I dealt with the issue of reading strategies and introduced those that are suitable for use in preschool age. In the empirical part, I used the qualitative approach of a multi-case study, which involved eight kindergarten teachers. Through in-depth interviews, repeated observation of the teachers' work with the text and subsequent analysis of video recordings of this work, answers to research questions were sought. It has been shown that teachers intend to develop children's comprehension, but only on a literal level, their work with texts is intuitive, without setting specific goals and monitoring the degree of their achievement. It turned out that reading strategies require a willingness of the teacher to work with them regularly and purposefully and to prepare for reading, which does not correspond to the prevailing...