Suvremena lingvistika, Vol. 47 No. 92, 2021.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2021.092.06
Do instructions overwhelm the preschool classroom? Early childhood educators’ use of instructional vs regulative directive commands
Francisco José Lería Dulčić
; University of Atacama
Roxana Nora Acosta Peña
; University of Antofagasta
Patricia Ester Sasso Orellana
; University of Atacama
Daniela Andrea Collao Jofré
; University of Atacama
Sažetak
Instructions are a fundamental part of early childhood educators’ verbal activities in a plethora of
interactions, that constantly guide children to achieve a targeted educational goal. However, little attention has been devoted to identify their presence and relative proportions in early childhood educators’ daily speech. Underpinned by functional linguistic theory, this study’s purpose is
to identify early childhood educators’ spoken directive commands from a large database to check
their distribution and predominance, compared to other verbal modalities that are equally important for their pedagogical work, such as: commands, sayings, feedback, questions, etc. Through 20
participants’ daily audio–recordings from regular work–hours with preschool children, we selected
a large number of sentences to later be classified according to their degree of belonging to a specific
directive command’s category – ten in this study. The findings suggest that instructional directives
are the first in order of frequency followed by the use of reformulations and singing, among others.
We conclude that it is vital for early childhood educators’ professional practice to identify which
types of linguistic styles they predominantly use in order to make eff ective decisions to pursuit an
educational goal, and that way successfully support young children’s learning processes. The scope
of these fi ndings is briefl y discussed taking into perspective future research and its contributions to
early childhood education’s formative processes.
Ključne riječi
jezično ponašanje; obrazovanje u ranom djetinjstvu; vještine odgajateljica; kvaliteta obrazovanja; poduka jezika
Hrčak ID:
269774
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2021.
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