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ECEC Teachers’ Reported Practices and Attitudes Toward Read-Alouds in Nordic Multilingual Classrooms
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. (Nordic Early Literacy Education)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7092-7387
Linnéuniversitetet . (Nordic Early Literacy Education)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5806-4475
Örebro universitet. (Nordic Early Literacy Education)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3486-7986
Åbo Akademy University, Finland. (Nordic Early Literacy Education)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5806-4475
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2023 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Literacy Research, E-ISSN 2464-1596, Vol. 9, no 2Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This study investigated teachers’ self-reported read-aloud practices in multilingual early childhood education and care (ECEC) classrooms in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. A total of 170 ECEC teachers participated in a survey about read-aloud practices. Data on literacy practices were analyzed quantitatively, and reasons for read-aloud approaches were qualitatively analyzed. The results showed that the ECEC teachers reported overall similar read-aloud practices regardless of the number of multilingual children in their classrooms; still, some degree of difference in didactic choices was found. Thirty-eight percent of the teachers chose a different book when reading to multilingual rather than monolingual children. Their reasons included a view of multilingual children as having different reading needs than monolingual children, such as simpler books with more illustrations. Choosing simpler books might be beneficial early in second-language development, especially when using a dialogic reading style for making the book accessible to more children. On the other hand, these reasons might indicate an underlying perception of all multilingual children as in more need of a teaching tone with explanations and instructions and less of an exchange tone with an active exchange of knowledge in read-aloud practice. The overall results point to read-alouds as an important early literacy activity in ECEC classrooms.

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2023. Vol. 9, no 2
Keywords [en]
read-aloud, multilingual children, early literacy, monolingual norm
Keywords [sv]
högläsning, Norden, flerspråkiga barn, enspråkig norm, tidig läs- och skrivutveckling
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Education and Learning, Läs- och skrivutvecklande praktiker i förskolan
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-46954DOI: 10.23865/njlr.v9.4035OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-46954DiVA, id: diva2:1797394
Available from: 2023-09-14 Created: 2023-09-14 Last updated: 2024-01-12Bibliographically approved

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