This documents deals with a development of reader literacy as well as working with the story with preschoolers. In theoretical part we discuss concepts like preschool age, where we explain each segment of children development and its lawfulness. Next we discuss topics like literacy and pre-literacy and we'll also concentrate on a reader segment. Next up we will take a look on games and stories in general and how each of these concepts influence preschool education. Last part of theoretical part focuses on educational methods for development of children of preschool age. Goal of a practical part is: a) research focused on pre-reading abilities of preschool children in certain classes- research pattern and experimental pattern b) to create a suitable methodology for development of pre-reading abilities of preschool children c) to use these methods in practice with a follow-up diagnostic of ability level of preschool children d) evaluation of information from acquired results e) creation of a book containing stories created and illustrated by preschool children. My research indicates, that my methods led to an increase in pre-literacy abilities of children which participated in testing. Difference between children that were educated with my newly developed methods and those who were not are...

Objetivo: Caracterizar o perfil das habilidades de linguagem (oral e escrita) de indivíduos com Displasia Frontonasal com e sem anomalias do sistema nervoso central. Modelo: Análise perspectiva descrevendo os achados da avaliação de linguagem em indivíduos com sinais clínicos de Displasia Frontonasal. Local de execução: Setor de Genética Clínica, HRAC-USP. Participantes: 14 indivíduos, com faixa etária variável, sendo 9 do gênero feminino e 5 do gênero masculino. O GI constituído por 7 indivíduos com displasia frontonasal isolada e 7 com displasia frontonasal associada a anomalias estruturais do Sistema Nervoso Central. Resultados: No GI, 3 Indivíduos (43%) apresentaram alterações nas habilidades de linguagem (oral e escrita), enquanto que no GII, 5 (71%) apresentaram os mesmos achados Na avaliação complementar, os resultados foram parcialmente concordantes com a avaliação clínica, sendo que 43% do GI apresentaram escores abaixo do esperado e no GII foram 71%. Conclusão: Conclui-se que a DFN associada a anomalias estruturais do SNC, como corpo caloso, apresentam em sua maioria, alterações nas habilidades de linguagem oral e escrita em porcentagem bem maior a DFN isolada. Porém as alterações de linguagem/aprendizagem podem estar associadas a DFN, uma vez que esta afecção apresenta um quadro de características fenotípicas bem distintas. / Objective: To characterize the profile of language skills (oral and written) of patients with frontonasal dysplasia with and without central nervous system anomalies. Model: Analysis perspective describing the findings of the evaluation of language in individuals with clinical features of frontonasal dysplasia. Setting: Genetics Departament, HRAC-USP. Participants: 14 individuals with varying ages, 9 females and 5 males. The GI consist 7 individuals with isolated frontonasal dysplasia and 7 with frontonasal dysplasia associated with central nervous system anomalies. Results: In GI, 3 individuals (43%) showed alterations in language skills (oral and escreita), whereas in GII, five individuals (71%) showed the same results. On supplementary assessment, the findings were consistent to the clinical evaluation, and 43% had scores below in GI and 71% in GII. Conclusions: It is concluded that the FND associated with structural abnormalities of the CNS, such as the corpus callosum, have mostly changes in the skills of oral and written language in a much larger percentage DFN isolated. However the language / learning disabilities may be associated with DFN, since this disease presents with distinct phenotypic characteristics.

Basic reading skills in Czech language, bilingual primary school children This thesis focuses on reading issues in Czech language in bilingual school age children born and taught in Czech environment. The main aim is to map there reading and writing skills in Czech language of bilingual children who live and study at the primary school with one or both parents from foreign country. The theoretical part defines the different types of bilingualism. It introduces the current state of knowledge about its advantages and disadvantages define the specifics of our language and education system focusing on the problems of foreigners and bilingual children. The practical part presents a research study in which the author compares the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in test mapping a level of the basic reading and writing skills in Czech language. There were used tests such as test of reading with comprehension, reading of pseudowords, writing a dictation, and test of reading literacy with expert text. KEYWORDS bilingualism monolingvism children of aliens school children primary school Czech language reading writing reading skills information retrieval comparative methods

No description available.

No description available.

This study aims to study how teachers of English, in years 7-9 focus on various language skills in their lessons. To do this it is necessary to answer several questions. The first question is what language skills are the most important, according to research and steering documents. The second question is what language skills the teachers see as the most important and whether these are the same skills that they focus their teaching on. The third question is what reason the teachers have to focus on certain language skills. The fourth question is what methods the teachers use to teach these language skills. These questions are answered through theories of English foreign language teaching, especially the communicative approach. Previous research shows that all skills are important for English language proficiency. However, the results from the interviews show that the teachers tend to focus on reading, writing and to a lesser extent listening. This is according to the teachers because it is the skills that the students are least proficient in. Furthermore, there are several methods presented that explain how certain language skills may be taught. The language skills studied are reading, writing, speaking and listening. The results have been reached through semi-structured qualitative interviews with teachers working at a single school. The teachers’ answers, together with the theoretical background, have given several results. A result that emerged in this study was that there is a dissonance between what language skills teachers consider the most important and what language skills they teach in their classrooms.

Le stade de l’école maternelle se considère comme un environnement fertile pour développer les compétences linguistiques de l’enfant. Il peut être également décrit comme l’âge d’or de la langue dans la vie humaine, où l’acquisition des compétences linguistiques, et les favoriser à cet âge joue un rôle primordial dans la formation de la langue propre de l’enfant dans les étapes suivantes. Par conséquent, l’apprentissage du langage à l’école maternelle doit être une priorité, il est nécessaire de faire attention à la manière de renforcer les compétences linguistiques et de choisir les méthodes efficaces et appropriées à cet âge. Par contre, nombre d'éducateurs ont souligné le lien étroit entre le jeu et l'apprentissage, insistant également sur l’importance du jeu dans la vie de l’enfant. Celui-ci a besoin de jouer : jouer pour grandir, jouer pour communiquer, jouer pour découvrir le monde, jouer pour développer son langage, jouer pour apprendre. Dans cette recherche, nous nous sommes intéressées à la question du rôle du jeu dans l’apprentissage du langage à l’école maternelle.Nous trouvons la méthode expérimentale convenable pour tester l’hypothèse de cette recherche, où l’objectif de notre travail est d’appréhender les effets du jeu sur la promotion des compétences linguistiques chez les enfants. Pour cela, nous avons impliqué un programme de jeux de langue sur un groupe d’enfants, et en comparaison leurs résultats avec les résultats d’autre groupe (témoin), nous avons trouvé les résultats suivants : Le recours aux jeux de langue a une incidence positive sur les résultats des enfants, en plus les enfants des deux sexes ont montré le même degré d’amélioration. / Preschool age that is considered a rich and abundant environment of important factors for language milestones development at the child, insomuch that we can call that stage the golden phase of language in child's life. While formation and enhancement of the language skills at this stage will play a major role in developing child's language in the later stages.Also, many pedagogists (scholars) and researchers confirm the importance of relationship between child play and learning whereby playing is essential in childhood and its substantial demand, they play for growing, communicating, learning, and developing their lingual abilities too. This study concerns in the issue of the role of playing in the learning language at preschool age – second level – or we can call it «Learning via language games ». We find the experimental method suitable for testing the hypothesis of this research, where the objective of our work is to understand the effects of play on the promotion of language skills in children. For this, we have involved a language games program on a group of children, and in comparison their results with the results of other groups (control), we found the following results: The use of language games has a positive impact on children's outcomes, in addition children of both sexes showed the same degree of improvement.

It has been assumed that mathematics testing indicates the development of mathematics concepts, but the linguistic demands of assessment have not been evaluated, especially for children with mild intellectual disabilities. 244 children (grades 2 – 5) were recruited from a larger reading intervention study. Using a multilevel longitudinal SEM model, baseline and post-intervention time points were examined for the contribution of item linguistic complexity, child language skills, and their potential interaction in predicting item level mathematics assessment performance. Item linguistic complexity was an important, stable, and negative predictor of mathematics achievement with children’s language skills significantly and positively predicting mathematics achievement. The interaction between item linguistic complexity and language skills was significant though not stable across time. Following intervention, children with higher language skills performed better on linguistically complex mathematics items. Mathematics achievement may be related to an interaction between children’s language skills and the linguistic demands of the tests themselves.

This dissertation research aims to analyze the material Ejercicios Amigos Dos used by students learning Spanish as a foreign language in a Swedish school. Specifically, it examines the place of speaking skills, in the context of basic language skills. This study was an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the material Ejercicios Amigos Dos.Qualitative method used was action research, which was based on the real needs of the author of this study to enhance their teaching.Sheet one and Sheet two containing educational criteria for the analysis of teaching materials were used to measure the place of speaking skills.The main findings in the analysis showed that speaking skills are taken into account in the teaching material, however there are some micro skills missing. Speaking skills do not take a prominent role in the teaching material. Writing skills are emphasized to a greater extent.

Over the years, considerable research has been done showing the advantages of early identification of hearing loss and its impact on children in developing speech and language skills. Although the universal early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) program is fully functional in developed countries it has not been actualized in developing global regions like Asia, Africa and Latin America. The primary reason could be precise government policies and the necessary funds to support them. There is also a lack of awareness and initiative form the parent's side. The purpose of this paper is to describe and support the need for a universal early detection of hearing loss and intervention program in India. Objectives for developing a universal early identification and intervention program and the recommendations for actualizing them have been included. / text