Teacher-Children Interactions In A Nursery School: An Exploratory Study  

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Cicognani, Elvira ; Zani, Bruna

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 1 (1992), page 1-12.
Fulltext: Vol. 06, no 1, p 1-12.pdf (783.38KB)

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The purpose of this study was to explore the verbal environment provided by nursery school teachers to the children. Teachers' language was analysed in two different interactive contexts: when interacting with a different number of interlocutors (study 1) and when talking to children of different linguistic competence (study 2). In the first study, 10 children from two age groups (10/11 months old and 31/37 months old) were monitored interacting with two teachers during a play session. Teachers' language produced in the two interactive situations (dyadic versus group) was then analysed for structural and thematic features. In the second study, two teachers were observed interacting with two groups of children aged 28/33 months, but with different linguistic competence (MLU 1,6 versus 3,1). The linguistic measurements collected included: structural features of teachers' language, total amount and kind of communicative intentions produced by both teachers and children. The results show that in both interactive contexts teachers tend to 'adapt' their linguistic style to the characteristics of their interlocutors.

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