Teachers’ Responsiveness to Preschoolers’ Utterances in Sociodramatic Play

Autor: Myae Han, Carol Vukelich, Sohyun Meacham, Martha J. Buell
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Early Education and Development. 27:318-335
ISSN: 1556-6935
1040-9289
DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2015.1057461
Popis: Research Findings: This descriptive study used sequential analysis to examine both preschool teachers’ responsiveness to children’s utterances in sociodramatic play and the children’s responses to their teachers’ utterances. Eleven teachers in a Head Start program were videotaped while interacting with children in the dramatic play center. Salient findings of this study are threefold: (a) Teachers’ responsiveness and the children’s responsiveness to their teachers’ talk varied substantially, (b) the children responded frequently to the teachers’ topic-continuing utterances, and (c) the children responded frequently in the pretend play mode when teachers extended the children’s utterances following the topics initiated by the children. Practice or Policy: The current study contributes to the extant research by providing a more fine-grained analysis of children’s response modes in the sociodramatic play context. In addition, the current study suggests that teacher education and that practice and pol...
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