Young Children Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary in Preschool Group-Time: Does Amount, Diversity, and Discourse Complexity of Teacher Talk Matter?

Autor/in	Aukrust, Vibeke Grover
Titel	Young Children Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary in Preschool Group-Time: Does Amount, Diversity, and Discourse Complexity of Teacher Talk Matter?
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 22 (2007) 1, S.17 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-8543
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Vocabulary Skills; Vocabulary Development; Grade 1; Norwegian; Preschool Education; Turkish; Native Speakers; Videotape Recordings; Linguistic Input; Teacher Student Relationship; Language Tests; Mothers; Receptive Language; Educational Attainment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Aktiver Wortschatz; Wortschatzarbeit; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Norwegisch; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Türkisch; Muttersprachler; Sprachbildung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Language test; Sprachtest; Mother; Mutter; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut
Abstract	This study investigated relationships between teacher talk exposure in preschool and school and children's second language vocabulary acquisition. Teacher talk exposure and vocabulary acquisition in Turkish-speaking children learning Norwegian and attending various classrooms were assessed yearly from when the children were in their next-to-last year of preschool attendance until 1st grade. Teacher talk lexical input was identified as amount (density of word tokens), diversity (density of word types), and complexity (density of word types appearing within explanatory talk) of input, based on videotaped teacher-student interactions. Children's vocabulary skills in Turkish and Norwegian were assessed using translated versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Word Definition Subscale of Reynell Developmental Language Scale. Only a few relationships were found between the amount, diversity, and complexity of teacher talk and the target children's immediate second language vocabulary skills. The amount, diversity, and complexity of teacher talk in preschool did, however, predict subsequent second language vocabulary skills in 1st grade. Controlling for maternal education and age of preschool entrance, teacher talk lexical input in preschool predicted variance in both 1st-grade receptive vocabulary and word definition skills. (Contains 7 tables and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10