scholarly journals EXAMINING THE UTILITY OF THE STIMULUS PAIRING OBSERVATION PROCEDURE WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocio Rosales ◽  
Ruth Anne Rehfeldt ◽  
Nancy Huffman
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Stimulus Pairing ◽  
Stimulus Pairing Observation Procedure

Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English–Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMIT ALTMAN ◽  
SHARON ARMON-LOTEM ◽  
SVETA FICHMAN ◽  
JOEL WALTERS
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mental State Terms ◽  
Narrative Performance

ABSTRACTChildren's bilingual status is important because the interest here is in narrative performance in both languages of bilingual children, in particular the within-subject, cross language comparisons. As Paradis (2010) has argued, there are some structures where performance differences will point to a temporary lack of opportunity for mastery, whereas other structures will be markers of underlying difficulties. We expect the discriminators to be language specific, depending on attested vulnerabilities for each of the languages involved. Narratives were examined for macrostructure (goals, attempts, and outcomes), microstructure (e.g., length, lexis, and morphosyntax), and mental state terms (MSTs). Thirty-one preschool children (TLD = 19, SLI = 12) retold stories accompanied by six pictures that were matched across content (Baby Birds/Baby Goats) and to the extent possible across languages (first language/second language) for macrostructure, microstructure, and MSTs in the framework of the Working Group on Narrative and Discourse Abilities in COST Action 0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment. The macrostructure results confirmed previous findings showing similar performance in both languages for children with TLD and those diagnosed with SLI. Consistent with previous findings on narrative abilities among bilingual children, microstructure analysis of verbal productivity, length of communication units, and lexical diversity distinguished children with TLD from those with SLI. An analysis of MSTs yielded more MSTs in children's second language, in particular more mental verbs. The most prevalent MSTs used in all narratives were early acquired perceptual and motivational verbs (“see” and “want”). Overall, distinctions between narratives of children with TLD and SLI were found primarily for microstructure features, where error analysis was particularly important in uncovering possible markers, especially in second languages.

scholarly journals Literature Contribution in Teaching of Indonesian Language as a Second Language for Preschool Children

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sitti Rabiah
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Reading Materials

Teaching Indonesian language as a second language after local language is a challenge in some areas in Indonesia. Requirement for parents to teach Indonesian language to their preschool children often face barriers due to the use of colloquial language still dominated by local language. Based on the above phenomenon, the authors conducted research to find solutions to the problems faced by the preschoolers to learn the Indonesian language. Using literature review, the authors pooled the results of the study, as well as works that have been published to confirm the statement that literature have contributed to the teaching of Indonesian as a second language for preschoolers. This study found that one of the causes of lack of understanding of Indonesian language to the preschool children because reading materials tend to be difficult to understand by children. In addition, the literature is less attracted attention and interest in reading, and less considering the nature of the child who is full of imagination and curiosity. From these findings reinforce the position of a literature in order to overcome the weakness in Indonesian language teaching materials. It is now the concern of literature can be implemented well and as expected in the process of teaching the preschoolers in order to achieve maximum results.

scholarly journals Object Recognition-Based Second Language Learning Educational Robot System for Chinese Preschool Children

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 7301-7312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Wu ◽  
Sirui Wang ◽  
Jiashuo Cao ◽  
Bing He ◽  
Chenmei Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Object Recognition ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Robot System ◽  
Educational Robot
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