scholarly journals Communicative Approach as a Tool for Relating Reading and Writing Skills in Early Childhood Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-54
Author(s):  
Nwachukwu Prince Ololube ◽  
Teinye Briggs ◽  
Peter James Kpolovie ◽  
Salome Uwaoma Ezindu
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Teaching Responsibilities

Abstract This study dwells upon communicative approach as a tool for relating reading and writing skills in early childhood education in a developing economy. The quantitative data was gathered through the use of structured questionnaires and was analysed using SPSS version 17. This study confirms that teachers in the selected early childhood education centres (ECEC) have no professional early childhood education qualifications and, as a result, are not qualified to effectively carry out their teaching responsibilities. It is hoped that this study can contribute to a deeper understanding of how early childhood education teachers perceive language teaching and consequently assist in the development of teacher education programmes and activities. Teacher training and education courses must play a more active role in informing trainee teachers of the instructional value of communicative approach in the teaching and learning of the English language. This study provides parents, teachers, researchers, the public and those who manage education systems with new data that will help them to answer questions about the failing state of education in Nigeria.

scholarly journals 'Invisible Obstacle' to Gender Equality: Gender Stereotype Messages in Early Childhood Education Books in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Juliet Njeri Muasya ◽  
Ruth Mugo Kahiga
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Documentary Analysis

Globally, research on gender stereotype messages or 'invisible obstacle' in the teaching and learning materials especially for primary and secondary schools is well documented. Findings from studies show illustrations, images, pictures and language that negatively portray males and females, boys and girls in learning materials and which tend to impact on students’ behaviours, aspirations, experiences, participation, achievement and expectations. The aim of the current study was to find out how gender messages are portrayed in 10 purposively selected Science and English language Early Childhood Education course, supplementary and workbooks using a documentary analysis checklist. Findings from the current study reveal that although authors of the analysed books have to some extent made the books gender responsive, however, gender stereotype messages expressed in masculine and feminine discourses are still visible. Two series of the books analysed are gender blind. Use of gender responsive books is likely to help children appreciate each other's gender, thus, create more equitable learning outcomes. Thus, it is important that any gender stereotype messages or information in learning and teaching materials are dealt with during early years of a child’s life.

scholarly journals Optimalisasi Keterampilan Menulis Pada Guru

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khodijah Hayati ◽  
Fitri Amilia
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teacher Competencies ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Writing Competency

Kemampuan dan keterampilan membaca menulis mutlak menjadi kompetensi yang harus dimiliki setiap guru. Kemampuan membaca dapat diukur dalam kegiatan berbicara dan menulis. Kemampuan menulis mencerminkan keterampilan berbahasa secara keseluruhan. Berdasarkan observasi, dibutuhkan kegiatan pelatihan dan pendampingan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis pada guru di desa Pakusari meliputi keterampilan menulis teks buku ajar dan artikel ilmiah.  Kegiatan pelatihan dan pendampingan ini merupakan rangkaian kegiatan pengabdian Masyarakat (Abdimas) bertema literasi di Desa Pakusari mulai tahun 2017 hingga 2019. Hasil pelaksanaan Abdimas pada guru Sekolah Dasar dan Guru Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini di Desa Pakusari menunjukkan bahwa keterampilan menulis guru sudah baik. Luaran dalam kegiatan ini berupa buku cerita, buku bergambar, dan lembar kerja siswa menjadi bukti konkret keterampilan mereka. Namun, kurangnya motivasi, sarana, dan pembiasaan menulis menjadi hambatan dalam kegiatan menulis. Untuk itu, diperlukan kerja sama semua pihak agar kompetensi guru bisa terus menerus ditingkatkan. Kompetensi guru yang baik akan menjadi dasar dalam pengembangan pendidikan dan pembelajaran.Kata Kunci: menulis; kompetensi guru. Optimization of Teacher's Writing SkillsABSTRACTThe reading and writing skills have absolutely become competency that must be possessed by teachers. Reading ability can be measured through speaking and writing activities. Writing skills reflect overall language skills. Based on observations, training and mentoring activities are needed to improve writing skills of textbook and scientific articles for teachers in Pakusari . This training and mentoring activity is the series of Community Service (Abdimas) on literacy-based theme activities in Pakusari from 2017 to 2019.  This activity was implemented for teachers of Elementary school and Early Childhood Education in Pakusari.  The results of the implementation show that the teacher's writing competency is good. The teachers have been able to create story books, picture books, and student worksheets as the concrete evidence of their ability in writing skills. However, lack of motivation, tools, and habit of writing, have become obstacles in writing activities. For this reason, collaboration between all parties is needed so that teacher’s competencies can continuously be improved. Competent teacher is the basis in the development of education and learning.Key Words: teacher competencies; writing.

scholarly journals Biography, policy and language teaching practices in a multilingual context: Early childhood classrooms in Mauritius

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen ◽  
Michael Anthony Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
African Country ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Implementation Level

Language policies in education in multilingual postcolonial contexts are often driven by ideological considerations more veered towards socio-economic and political viability for the country than towards the practicality at implementation level. Centuries after the advent of colonisation, when culturally and linguistically homogenous countries helped to maintain the dominion of colonisers, the English language still has a stronghold in numerous countries due to the material rewards it offers. How then are the diversity of languages – often with different statuses and functions in society – reconciled in the teaching and learning process? How do teachers deal with the intricacies that are generated within a situation where children are taught in a language that is foreign to them? This paper is based on a study involving pre-primary teachers in Mauritius, a developing multilingual African country. The aim was to understand how their approach to the teaching of English was shaped by their biographical experiences of learning the language. The narrative inquiry methodology offered rich possibilities to foray into these experiences, including the manifestations of negotiating their classroom pedagogy in relation to their own personal historical biographies of language teaching and learning, the policy environment, and the pragmatic classroom specificities of diverse, multilingual learners. These insights become resources for early childhood education and teacher development in multilingual contexts caught within the tensions between language policy and pedagogy.

scholarly journals How to Use Challenge-Based Learning for the Acquisition of Learning to Learn Competence in Early Childhood Preservice Teachers: A Virtual Archaeological Museum Tour in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Abril-López ◽  
Dolores López Carrillo ◽  
Pedro Miguel González-Moreno ◽  
Emilio José Delgado-Algarra
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Virtual Tour ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Challenge Based Learning ◽  
Museum Tour

This article presents the research results in relation to an interdisciplinary teaching innovation project—Teaching and Learning of Social Sciences and Teaching and Learning of Natural Sciences—with Early Childhood Preservice Teachers (ECPT) at the University of Alcalá (Spain) in the pandemic context by COVID-19 during 2020–2021 (N = 55): 52 women (94.55%) and 3 men (5.45%) from 20 to 22 years of age. The main research problem is to know if the ECPT improves the learning to learn competence after a challenge-based learning (CBL) linked to virtual tour in a museum. The main objective was to improve the learning to learn competence, during a virtual tour at the Community of Madrid Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) for a reflective training of students to understand problems of the past and present and future global challenges, promote collaborative and multidisciplinary work, and defend ethics and leadership. In order to ascertain the level of acquisition of this competence in those teachers who were being trained, their self-perception—pretest–posttest—of the experience was assessed through a system of categories adapted from the European Commission. ECPT worked, in small groups and using e/m-learning tools, ten challenges and one storytelling cooperatively with university teachers to solve prehistoric questions related to current situations and problems. Subsequently, two Early Childhood Education teachers from a school in Alcalá de Henares reviewed the proposals and adapted them for application in the classroom of 5-year-old boys and girls. The results show an improvement in this competence in Early Childhood Preservice Teachers: total score pre-post comparison paired-samples Wilcoxon test result shows a statistically significant difference (p > 0.001); an evaluation rubric verified the results of self-perception. Second, we highlight the importance of carrying out virtual museum tours from a challenge-based learning for the development of big ideas, essential questions, challenges, and activities on socioeconomic, environmental, and emotional knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Third, this experience shows the insufficient educational adaptation of the virtual museum tour to the Early Childhood Education stage from a technological and didactic workshops point of view, but there is a diversity of paleontological and archaeological materials and a significant sociocritical discourse.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AMONG MDAB STUDENTS AT UITM MALACCA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 01-12
Author(s):  
Khalijah Mohd Nor ◽  
Masliza Mohd Razali ◽  
Nashrah Talib ◽  
Nurbarirah Ahmad ◽  
Siti Rosnita Sakarji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Language Experience ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Office Management ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Learning English

This study examined students’ problems in learning English as a second language in higher learning institutions. This paper reports on the results of an interview of 30 randomly selected MDAB students of Diploma in Office Management and Technology at UiTM Melaka. The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that contribute to the decreasing of students’ achievement in the English language. The discussion revealed the different reasons that students face in speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. In learning a second language, it is of utmost importance that learners receive maximum support in terms of a supportive and conducive learning environment as well as an adequate and meaningful language experience. This research hopes to enlighten students in learning the English language so that they may strive to improve their English skills, thus making language teaching and learning more effective and meaningful for both lecturers and students.

scholarly journals Professionalism Enhancement of Ece Tutors Through K13 Learning Devices Production Training In Cibitung Tengah Village, Bogor Regency

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Yenina Akmal ◽  
Hikmah Hikmah ◽  
Ika Subekti ◽  
Ichtineza Halida Hardono
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Moral Concept ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Average Education ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Interest And Motivation

<p><em>Abstract</em><strong> - The presence of Early Childhood Education (ECE) tutor in Cibitung Tengah Village Tenjolaya District Bogor Regency is really needed for early childhood in order to become a guide in the ECE institutions. The problem occurred is that the average education level of ECE tutor is diverse, from Middle School, High School, Associate Degree, and Bachelor Degree. In this condition, we can say that those ECE tutors had not had the knowledge and insight about the ECE, namely the 2013 Curriculum, the ECE concept, and the learning devices. Training, along with the research about the role of those training itself, are need to be done in order to answer this question for increasing the knowledge and insight of ECE tutor using action research method. The results showed the enhancement of conducted training, including the enhancement of interest and motivation to develop their knowledge and insight about the ECE. Extended with the existence of WhatsApp group as a platform for communication between ECE tutors and UNJ researchers in the efforts to enhance the professionalism of ECE tutors, in the context of mentoring, ECE Tutors in the Cibitung Tengah, Tenjolaya Village were also involved in the learning devices production training in order to apply the religious moral concept to the ECE in the teaching and learning process at the UNJ and also to observe Ceria Daycare of the Department of ECE, Faculty of Education, UNJ.</strong></p><p><strong>Keyword - </strong>Early Childhood Education (ECE), 2013 Curriculum, Learning Devices</p>

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