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dc.contributor.authorDegotardi, S
dc.contributor.authorTorr, J
dc.contributor.authorHan, F
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-10T04:10:29Z
dc.date.available2019-07-10T04:10:29Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1040-9289
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10409289.2018.1499000
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/386132
dc.description.abstractResearch Findings: This study investigated the prevalence of pedagogical questions posed by 27 early childhood educators as they interacted with infants in each of two naturally-occurring contexts: book-focused interactions and educator mediated play. The pedagogical questions expressed by educators to infants were coded as confirm (yes/no), specify (what, who, where, when) or explain (why, how) on the basis that these question types present infants with different opportunities to use their developing communication skills to provide information to others. We sought to determine associations between question use, activity context and educators’ qualification levels. Explain questions were used very rarely, while confirm and specify questions were more frequent, comprising 7.60% and 8.32% respectively of the messages expressed by educators to infants. A 2 (activity context) × 2 (qualification level) mixed factorial MANOVA, supplemented with post-hoc qualitative analyses, demonstrated that, in specific activity contexts, degree qualified early childhood teachers used pedagogical questioning in ways which differed from their less-qualified counterparts. Practice or policy: The findings provide much needed data on how educator questioning is used with children under two, how questioning affords context-specific language learning opportunities for infants in ECEC centres, and how educator qualifications may be implicated in these opportunities.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Online
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1004
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1018
dc.relation.ispartofissue8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEarly Education and Development
dc.relation.ispartofvolume29
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.titleInfant Educators’ Use of Pedagogical Questioning: Relationships With the Context of Interaction and Educators’ Qualifications
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Early Education and Development on 25 Jul 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2018.1499000
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gro.griffith.authorHan, Feifei D.


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