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Phil the Phytoplankton
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In: World Languages and Cultures (2020)
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The Challenges and Benefits of Maintaining ECE Children's Home Languages in New Zealand
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With the development of globalisation in the last couple of decades, early childhood centres in Auckland have become more diverse in culture and languages, both with regard to children and their families as well as teachers. Teachers and parents have noticed bilingualism including the benefits of being bilingual and the challenges of maintaining young children’s home languages. This is also noticeable in Early Childhood centres, where an increasing number of children and their families as well as teachers are becoming more culturally diverse, which entails the use of different languages. This gives rise to considering what teachers and parents could do to promote children’s home languages within the increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse educational environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. This study explores the question of the benefits and challenges teachers and parents experience when they try to keep and promote children’s home languages in the multicultural and multilingual education environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. The theoretical perspective in this research was social-cultural theory, which was firstly put forward by Russian psychologist Vygotsky. According to this theory, children’s language development is understood as a sociocultural process which take place through their participation in their own communities and families. This study adopted a qualitative research methodology using semi-structured interview as the main data collection method. Data was collected from eight participants including four qualified early childhood teachers and four Chinese parents from the same centre located in East Auckland. Teacher participants included one monolingual teacher and three bilingual teachers. Semi-structured interviews were designed to explore teachers’ and parents’ perspectives of bilingualism and the challenges they met during their teaching practices. Manual thematic coding was used to analyse the data and six themes were identified which included: the benefits of having bilingual teachers; benefits of being bilingual; cultural identities and belonging; attitudes towards bilingualism; biliteracy teaching; and challenges of keeping home languages. However, teachers found that they did not have clear guidance from the early childhood curriculum on maintaining children’s home languages and parent did not realise that they could also work together with teachers to promote children’s home languages. Most of the literature on bilingualism is international and this research contributes to the domestic studies in this area in Aotearoa New Zealand. This study also contributes to our understanding of the state of bilingual education in early childhood centres in Aotearoa New Zealand and highlights the need to develop clear guidelines to help teachers support bilingual development of children with home languages other than English. This research has also provided a different perspective to understand Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum of Aotearoa New Zealand. This can be useful for the updates of the curriculum. The issue of bilingual teachers using of home languages in the centre also deserves our further research.
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Early childhood education; Home languages; Interviews; Parent and teacher perspectives
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10292/13191
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Teaching Standards, Approaches, and Techniques for K-12 Chinese Classes in the US
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In: Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology (2020)
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(Re)storying Horizons: White Kindergarten Teachers’ Enactment Of The Language And Literacy Curriculum In A Predominantly-white Working-class North Carolina Mountain Community Public School
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Language and socialization : intercultural activities impact in multilingual educational settings ; Langue et socialisation : l'impact des activités interculturelles en contexte scolaire multilingue
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In: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03325573 ; Linguistique. Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2020. Français. ⟨NNT : 2020MON30067⟩ (2020)
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Noticing for Equity to Sustain Multilingual Literacies
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In: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol 63, iss 4 (2020)
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Storytelling Comes Alive: Preschoolers’ Development of Narrative Comprehension and Academic Language Within a Participatory Oral Storytelling Intervention
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The Use of A Computer-Supported Learning Design to Support Oral Language Development among English Language Learners through the Design Process
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Weaving the Social Fabric of Dialogic Relations: An Investigation and Exploration into the Interactional Accomplishment of "Being With"
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The Role of Social-Emotional Abilities in the Vocabulary Outcomes of Young Spanish-English Dual Language Learner (DLL) Students
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Shared reading for valuing diversity and fostering language acquisition ...
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Influence of Early Childhood Education on Language Development and Visualization Process Skills of Primary One Pupils in Jos Metropolis Nigeria ...
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Influence of Early Childhood Education on Language Development and Visualization Process Skills of Primary One Pupils in Jos Metropolis Nigeria ...
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Audiovisual integration in 4-and 5-year-old children: Behavioural and neural responses ...
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Exploring Trajectories of Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Across Multiple Measures ...
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How Pre-K Teachers Support the Language and Literacy Development of Young Dual Language Learners: A Multi-Case Study of Four Exemplary Teachers ...
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De Facto Bilingual Education: The Role of Home Language Support in the Academic Achievement of Dual Language Learners ...
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Guzman, Natalia. - : Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, 2020
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SpraBi: Fragebogen und App zur Dokumentation sprachlicher Bildungsaktivitäten in der Kita ...
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Narrative Abilities in Preschool Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Speech Sound Disorder, and Language Impairment
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In: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1586948079666208 (2020)
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