The Role of Language Competence in Building Peer Relationships in Early Childhood: A Social Network Perspective

Q3 Social Sciences

Studia Paedagogica Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5817/sp2021-2-1

Femke van der Wilt, D. Froehlich, Chiel van der Veen

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Abstract

Engaging in positive relationships with peers is highly important for children’s learning and development. In the present study, social network analyses were used to investigate how children’s language competence affects their peer relationships in the context of early childhood classrooms. A total of 13 classrooms (N = 248 children) participated. Children’s language competence was measured using tests for oral communicative competence and receptive vocabulary knowledge. Furthermore, a sociometric method was used to obtain network data. Outcomes of social network analyses showed that children are more likely to form relationships with children with high and similar levels of receptive vocabulary knowledge. In addition, weak support was found for the hypothesis that children form relationships with children with high levels of oral communicative

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语言能力在幼儿同伴关系建立中的作用:一个社会网络的视角

与同伴建立积极的关系对儿童的学习和发展非常重要。本研究采用社会网络分析的方法，探讨儿童语言能力对幼儿课堂同伴关系的影响。共有13个教室(N = 248名儿童)参与。使用口语交际能力和接受性词汇知识测试来测量儿童的语言能力。此外，采用社会计量学方法获取网络数据。社会网络分析的结果表明，儿童更有可能与接受性词汇知识水平较高和相似的儿童建立关系。此外，对儿童与口语交际水平高的儿童形成关系的假设的支持力度较弱

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Studia Paedagogica Social Sciences-Education

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1.00

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： Studia Paedagogica publishes original papers on education, upbringing and learning from all spheres of social life. The papers are theoretical, but mainly empirical as the journal publishes research undertaken in the Czech Republic and abroad. The journal publishes only original research papers and is open to both experienced and early researchers. Early researchers can publish their papers in the section Emerging Researchers of the journal and are offered intensive editorial support. The journal is interdisciplinary - it covers current topics in educational research while at the same time providing scope for studies grounded in other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, two issues are dedicated to general interest articles and are in Czech, two issues are on a single topic and are in English. Studia Paedagogica is a peer reviewed journal published by the Masaryk University. The executive editors are members of the staff of the Department of Educational Sciences and the editorial board comprises of international experts. The name of the journal is derived from the name of its predecessor, Studia minora facultatis philosophicae universitatis brunensis (Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity), which was issued from 1996 to 2008. However, the tradition of the journal dates much further back as the pedagogical-psychological series of the journal was published even between 1966 to 1995.