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Publication details [#58947]

Michel, Marije C., Dieter Thoma and Daniela Ofner. 2014. Early childhood educators’ competences for supporting children's academic language skills in Germany. Language Awareness 23 (1/2) : 138–156.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | language awareness | language development1 | language proficiency | language teaching

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study advocates a greater focus on linguistics and language awareness in German early childhood educators’ specialist professional training in order to make them more fit to support children's linguistic growth.