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Exploring Early Childhood Teachersâ Perspectives Regarding How They Teach Vocabulary, Serena Williams
Exploring Early Childhood Teachersâ Perspectives Regarding How They Teach Vocabulary, Serena Williams
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Previous studies have been done on the lack of quality and consistency of vocabulary instruction in low socioeconomic schools. The problem addressed in this study was that some students were performing well on vocabulary assessments in low income early childhood classrooms while other students were performing poorly. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perspectives of early childhood teachers in low socioeconomic schools of students with high vocabulary scores regarding how they teach students based on their zones of proximal development. The conceptual framework used in this study was Vygotskyâs (1978) sociocultural theory of cognitive development, …