Android interactive word game in mother tongue for early childhood learners

Use of A Game in Teaching Early Childhood Learners in Zimbabwe

The effect and use of games in learning has been demonstrated overall by different researchers. Games are critical to early childhood learning as they develop a child to recall taught concepts and improve their learning. However, the effects brought by games may as well be negative to students learning. The study looks at an integrated game for early childhood learners that was developed and ap...

Early Word Learners ’ Ability to Access

Several recent studies from our laboratory have shown that 14-month-old infants have difficulty learning to associate two phonetically similar new words to two different objects when tested in the Switch task. Because the infants can discriminate the same phonetic detail that they fail to use in the associative word-learning situation, we have argued that this wordlearning failure results from ...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

Japanese and German Mother-Child Interactions in Early Childhood

The goal of this contribution is to describe some characteristics of mother-child relationships in Japan and Germany including consequences for child-rearing practices and children's development. In contrast to Germany. in Japan a strong emotional bond between mother and child, the encouragement of amae-behavior. maternal sensitivity, and responsiveness is assumed to influence the child's sodo-...