Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood
Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms
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Beschreibung
This book presents new findings on the role of active learning in infants’ and young children’s cognitive and linguistic development. Chapters discuss evidence-based models, identify possible neurological mechanisms supporting active learning, pinpoint children’s early understanding of learning, and trace children’s recognition of their own learning. Chapters also address how children shape their lexicon, covering a range of active learning practices including interactions with parents, teachers, and peers; curiosity and exploration during play; seeking information from other people and their surroundings; and asking questions. In addition, processes of selective learning are discussed, from learning new words and trusting others in acquiring information to weighing evidence and accepting ambiguity.
Topics featured in this book include:
- Infants’ active role in language learning.
- The process of active word learning.
- Understanding when and how explanation promotes exploration.
- How conversations with parents can affect children’s word associations.
- Evidence evaluation for active learning and teaching in early childhood.
- Bilingual children and their role as language brokers for their parents.
This book presents new findings on the role of active learning in infants’ and young children’s cognitive and linguistic development. Chapters discuss evidence-based models, identify possible neurological mechanisms supporting active learning, pinpoint children’s early understanding of learning, and trace children’s recognition of their own learning. Chapters also address how children shape their lexicon, covering a range of active learning practices including interactions with parents, teachers, and peers; curiosity and exploration during play; seeking information from other people and their surroundings; and asking questions. In addition, processes of selective learning are discussed, from learning new words and trusting others in acquiring information to weighing evidence and accepting ambiguity.
Topics featured in this book include:
- Infants’ active role in language learning.
- The process of active word learning.
- Understanding when and how explanation promotes exploration.
- How conversations with parents can affect children’s word associations.
- Evidence evaluation for active learning and teaching in early childhood.
- Bilingual children and their role as language brokers for their parents.
Highlights the active role infants and young children play in acquiring language and developing concepts Examines how young children gather information about new words Explores neurological underpinnings of the social and motivational aspects of language learning Discusses language and knowledge acquisition from the child’s perspective Describes the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms that support the genesis of language
Autor*in
Megan M. Saylor
Themen in »Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood«
Early communication between mothers and infants Early language acquisition and development Early pragmatic language development Infant preferences and language development Infants’ understanding of speech Knowledge acquisition in infancy and early childhood Language acquisition in infancy and early childhood Language and social interaction in infants and young children Language development in infancy and early childhood Language development in preschoolers Language disorders in early childhood Lexical gaps in preschoolers Picture book reading in early childhood Question-asking behaviors in preschoolers Shared book reading with preschoolers