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Preschool Talk: Patterns of Teacher-Child Interaction In Early Childhood Classrooms
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Second Language LearningMultilingualismKindergarten EducationLanguage DevelopmentEducationPreschool DevelopmentEarly Childhood LanguageLanguage EducationEarly Childhood EducationLiteracy DevelopmentLanguage LearningPreschool TeachingTeacher EducationChild LiteracyClassroom Language EnvironmentsChild LanguageEarly Childhood TeachingLanguage AcquisitionSchool-age LanguageLanguage StudiesVerbal InteractionEarly Childhood DevelopmentLanguage CurriculumChild DevelopmentEarly EducationClassroom LanguageEarly Childhood LiteracyPreschool EducationPreschool TalkHome-school StudyLinguistics
Abstract This article reports on data describing the classroom language environments in the classrooms which the children in the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development attended when they were three and four years old. Sources of data for this article include: (a) a teacher interview; (b) a curriculum check list; and (c) spontaneous conversations of the children which were audiotaped throughout the morning-long observation. This article reports on the coding and analysis process applied to this data, and the correlations among the resulting variables. The school environments of the same three children as in the previous article are profiled as well.