The oral language productive vocabulary profile of children starting school

A resource for teachers

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ID21293880
AutoresClarence Green (0000-0003-3463-141X, Federation University Australia, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume65
Fascículo1
Páginas41-54
Data de publicação2021-04-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-9441 • E-ISSN: 2050-5884
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0004944120982771
OpenAlexW3119863011
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas19

The oral language proficiency of students in early education is crucial as teachers draw on this as a resource when developing literacy. There is a need to better understand what this oral language resource consists of at school entry, particularly the diversity amongst children so as to address inequalities. This article reports a study on a key component of oral language, namely productive vocabulary. It profiles the oral language vocabulary in approximately 3.6 million words produced by a large sample of almost 800 children under the age of five. The results are reported in a productive vocabulary resource, structured as a list of 2767 vocabulary targets. This profile represents highly productive vocabulary presumably known by most children as well as more advanced vocabulary not part of every child’s oral language. The article demonstrates the pedagogical implications of this research in the context of the National Literacy Learning Progressions of the Australian National Curriculum

Context (archaeology) · Curriculum · Geography · Linguistics · Literacy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Resource (disambiguation) · Teaching method · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Pedagogy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning

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