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Doctoral Dissertation (Ed.D.)
The Power of Play: A Case Study on How Play-Based Learning Can Affect the Oral Language and the Social and Emotional Development of Students in the Kindergarten Classroom
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: With the passing of NCLB in 2001, pedagogy in the kindergarten classroom has changed exponentially. The requirement for a rigorous academic curriculum has replaced the play-based learning that used to be synonymous with the kindergarten classroom. Since the beginning of kindergarten, researchers have worked to prove the importance of play in the classroom and the role of the educator in these play-based learning scenarios. Many studies have found a correlation between play and child development, but this has not been enough to change the minds of educators and school districts across the United States. This qualitative case study explored teachers’ perceptions and classroom interactions during play through a triangulation of data including video recordings, interviews, and observations to explore the effect play might have on the social, emotional, and oral language development of kindergarten students in a district that is already implementing free play centers in the classroom. Varying beliefs among the educators and multiple scenarios of social, emotional, and oral language development skills being used by students during these free play sessions were explored. Key themes that emerged from the data included a range of understanding amongst the teachers, the need for regular professional development on how to implement play in the classroom, and the importance dramatic play has on social, emotional, and oral language development for kindergarten students.
Language: English
Published: Springfield, Missouri, 2022
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 6, Folder 45 - Lecture Outlines, 1962-ca.1963 - “The Study of Language”
Available from: Seattle University
Date: ca.1963
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
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Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Master's Thesis (Action Research Report)
Increasing Student Motivation in a Foreign Language Classroom Through Mindfulness
Available from: St. Catherine University
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this study was to explore how mindfulness practices help increase motivation in high school students in a foreign language classroom. This study was conducted at a small school in an urban area in Texas. Nineteen students between the ninth and tenth grades were the participants in this research. The data collection included a pre and post motivational questionnaire that helped identify how motivated the students felt in the classroom. Data was collected on each participant through weekly self-assessments. The results of this action research showed that the implementation of mindfulness practices helped to increase the motivation of the students in the high school Spanish class. The action research project was conducted at the beginning of the second semester of the school year with a duration of four weeks.
Language: English
Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2020
Article
Charts: Language Chart, Prepared Paths to Culture
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1973, no. 4
Date: 1973
Pages: 10–12
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Study-Conference AMI on Music and Language July 29th-August 12th 1961
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1961, no. 1
Date: 1961
Pages: 1–4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Language Chart
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1960, no. 2
Date: 1960
Pages: 14–15
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Helping the Child in the Conquest of the Written Language
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 5
Date: 1960
Pages: 7-12
Albert Max Joosten - Writings, Language acquisition
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
Article
Playing with Meaning: Humour, Language Development and Imagination
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2014-2015
Date: 2014/2015
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Abstract/Notes: Carla Foster shows how the imagination facilitates evolutionary humour, which enriches language, and how linguistic humour introduces cognitive fluency—another characteristic of imagination, referring to the movement of the mind in all directions through space and time.
Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Article
Becoming and Being the Foreign Language Specialist in Your Classroom [preview of presentation at 2001 summer conference]
Publication: AMI Elementary Alumni Association Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 3
Date: 2001
Pages: 7
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Language: English
Article
Language Material for Sentence Analysis
Publication: AMI Elementary Alumni Association Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 3
Date: 1996
Pages: 7, insert
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Language: English