Overview
Highlights the active role infants and young children play in acquiring language and developing concepts
Examines how young children gather information about new words
Explores neurological underpinnings of the social and motivational aspects of language learning
Discusses language and knowledge acquisition from the child’s perspective
Describes the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms that support the genesis of language
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cognitive and Linguistic Skills that Enable Active Learning
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Epistemic Trust: Selectivity in Children’s Learning
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Active Learning in Diverse Contexts
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Early communication between mothers and infants
- Early language acquisition and development
- Early pragmatic language development
- Infant preferences and language development
- Infants’ understanding of speech
- Knowledge acquisition in infancy and early childhood
- Language acquisition in infancy and early childhood
- Language and social interaction in infants and young children
- Language development in infancy and early childhood
- Language development in preschoolers
- Language disorders in early childhood
- Lexical gaps in preschoolers
- Picture book reading in early childhood
- Question-asking behaviors in preschoolers
- Shared book reading with preschoolers
- Specific language impairment in preschoolers
- Social cognition in infants and young children
- Social motivational components of early communication
- Social motivation in infancy and early childhood
- Teaching infants and young children
About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- Infants’ active role in language learning.
- The process of active word learning.
- Understanding when and how explanation promotes exploration.
- How conversations with parents can affect children’s word associations.
- Evidence evaluation for active learning and teaching in early childhood.
- Bilingual children and their role as language brokers for their parents.
Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, educational psychology, and early childhood education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Patricia A. Ganea, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Bucharest in 1996, where she studied psychology and philosophy. Following one year at the University of Oxford as a Soros visiting student, she completed her doctorate in Developmental Psychology at the University of Virginia in 2004. She was Assistant Professor at Boston University from 2007 until 2011, when she joined University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the social, linguistic, and representational aspects of young children's learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood
Book Subtitle: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms
Editors: Megan M. Saylor, Patricia A. Ganea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77182-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77181-6Published: 18 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08391-5Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77182-3Published: 04 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Educational Psychology