Martina Norling defended doctoral thesis
CHILD-member Martina Norling has successfully defended her doctoral thesis Preschool – a social language environment and an arena for emergent literacy processes.
Martina Norling has for several years been a member of the CHILD
research group, employed both at Jönköping University and Mälardalen
University, where the defense took place on the 13th of March.
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By focusing on preschool, as an arena for emergent literacy and language learning processes, this thesis put the lens on preschool staff´s approaches and strategies in the social language environment in Swedish preschools. Taking its point of departure in real preschool settings, the overall purpose of this thesis is to develop a greater understanding of this social language environment, with particular emphasis on the quality dimensions of strategies, such as the preschool staff´s sensitivity and approaches in the preschool environment.
Two didactic issues are of special importance to the thesis: preschool staff´s descriptions of what kind of strategies and approaches they use in the social language environment as well as how preschool staff support children’s language learning processes in literacy-related activities.
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