Improvement of preschool children’s speech and language skills
2020 (English) In: Early Child Development and Care, ISSN 0300-4430, E-ISSN 1476-8275, Vol. 190, no 14, p. 2205-2213Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Many children in preschool have speech and language disorders and a poor communication development, and the need for support is extensive. The aim was to find out if and how reading aloud and storytelling could enhance children’s communication development, the study was interactionistic. Eleven municipal preschools with 23 child units (573 children) participated. A questionnaire containing 15 questions with 54 sub-items was answered on group level by the staff. The results showed that reading aloud and storytelling was used continuously, and the staff believed that the activity would help the children to develop their communication both regarding speech and development of concepts. But this is provided that the staff prioritize literacy in preschool and have knowledge about how to use reading aloud and storytelling to support children’s communication.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Taylor & Francis, 2020. Vol. 190, no 14, p. 2205-2213
Keywords [en]
communication, improvements in preschool and school, Preschool children, preschool curriculum, reading aloud, speech and language development, storytelling, article, child, curriculum, female, human, human experiment, language development, literacy, major clinical study, male, questionnaire, speech development, staff
National Category
Pedagogical Work
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42885 DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2018.1564917 ISI: 000596878200004 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85059703689 Local ID: HOA HLK 2020 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-42885 DiVA, id: diva2:1286179
2019-02-062019-02-062021-01-28 Bibliographically approved