Purpose
The study investigates how kindergarten teachers can use video recordings in the analysis of learning activities to support multilingual children in their language development. The research question is: What type of knowledge and didactic strategies need to be developed to support multilingual children in their language development?
Result
The results show that kindergarten teachers use didactic strategies that are related to multilingual children’s interests, strategies that support children’s empowerment, and strategies that challenge children’s reading and writing processes. The researcher believes that such video recordings are a good method to use when kindergarten teachers analyse multilingual strategies.
Design
The study uses action research as a method where the kindergarten teachers used video recordings from their own learning activities in the kindergarten, which they then analysed. The data material consists of 15 kindergarten teachers’ 75 written reflections related to the activities, as well as support from the Social Language Environment-Domain (SLE-D) analysis tool.
References
Norling, M. (2020). “Video Recording as a Method for Swedish Preschool Teachers to Analyze Multilingual Strategies”. World Journal of Educational Research, 7(1):109-129.