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First Annual SFA Life-Long Learner Conference April 28, 2012

Say What??? Indirect Language Stimulation In Early Childhood. First Annual SFA Life-Long Learner Conference April 28, 2012. Dr. Jannah Nerren and Dr. Carolyn Abel Stephen F. Austin State University James I. Perkins College of Education Department of Elementary Education

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First Annual SFA Life-Long Learner Conference April 28, 2012

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  1. Say What??? Indirect Language Stimulation In Early Childhood First Annual SFA Life-Long Learner Conference April 28, 2012

  2. Dr. Jannah Nerren and Dr. Carolyn Abel Stephen F. Austin State University James I. Perkins College of Education Department of Elementary Education Early Childhood Education Program Research funded by the Margaret Hoover Perkins Professorship

  3. Plans for this Session: • What do you already know? • Let’s find out what you don’t know! • Let’s practice what you just learned! • Let’s find out what you now know!

  4. Overview of the Research • First look: Public School Pre-Kindergarten • Second look: Rural Head Start • Present look: Large Urban Head Start • In each of the three studies, the teachers significantly gained knowledge of the strategies through our training, and YOU CAN TOO!

  5. Resources Good Talking With You Educational Productions, Inc. Beaverton, OR 1.800.950.4949 www.edpro.com

  6. Some key terms: • Receptive Language • Expressive Language • Direct Language Stimulation • Indirect Language Stimulation • Parallel Talk • Descriptive Talk • Self-Talk

  7. Normal Language Development for 3-Year-Olds

  8. Did you know… It is more important for an adult who works with children to know how language develops than to speak the child’s language! Understanding what they need makes us more able to help a child further their language skills.

  9. Strategic Ways of Talking With Children: • Parallel Talk – child centered • Descriptive Talk – object centered • Self-Talk – adult centered

  10. Strategic Ways To Encourage Language: • Step 1 – Show interest • Step 2 – Information Talk (parallel, description, self) • Step 3 – Limit closed questions • Step 4 – Indirect correction

  11. Specific Methods of Communication: • Expansion • Recast the child’s words with added information • Expansion Plus • Recast simple sentences with an added sentence. • Open Ended Question • Questions with no “correct” answer

  12. Supporting Conversation • Question: Why are conversations important? • Children need help in attending. • Children need help establishing and maintaining a topic. • Adults should support conversation by referring questions and comments. • Sometimes interpretation is important.

  13. Environment is Critical • Two types of environments: social and physical • Consider the environment of your current classroom: • Are there areas that allow children opportunities to talk to each other? • Are there areas that allow you to interact with children? • Does the social environment promote conversation?

  14. Thank you! Axe ‘Em Jacks!

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