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FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Shared Reading Practices in Early Childhood Education and families for Language Learning and Literature experiences

Alternative title: Samtalebaserte lesePraksiser i barnehage og hjem for Erfaringer med Litteratur og Læring av språk

Awarded: NOK 15.1 mill.

SPrELL will support multilingual children's language and literacy learning, motivate caregivers and kindergarten teachers for shared reading by using digital books in multiple languages, and contribute to collaboration with multilingual families. With this, SPrELL aims to increase quality in ECEC institutions by: 1. enhancing the quality of professional pedagogical work by competence development in the collaboration between kindergartens and homes related to reading books in different languages and 2. testing second-language development as an effect of reading digital picture books in homes and kindergartens. Partners in SPrELL are kindergarten teachers, multilingual caregivers and the Center for multilingual children and young people in Sandnes municipality, researchers at the University of Stavanger, the University of Agder, the Arctic University of Norway and Queen Maud University College. By combining research-based knowledge about reading digital books and existing technology for digitizing printed books, SPrELL - together with the digital reading service Lesemester AS - will develop 20 digital picture books which offer a language choice. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods SPrELL will answer: - What characterises reading practices in homes and kindergartens? - Do reading digital books available through the digital book platform strengthen second-language learning? - Does access to a digital book platform contribute to closer collaboration between homes and kindergartens? - What experiences do kindergarten teachers and multilingual caregivers have in their collaboration on children?s second language learning through reading at home and in kindergarten? SPrELL will contribute to new standards for digital book production. The results from the project will be made available for kindergarten-based competence development as a part of FILIORUM's toolbox.

SPrELL aims to increase quality in ECEC by i) enhancing the quality of professional pedagogical work by competence development in the collaboration between kindergartens and homes related to reading books in different languages and ii) testing second-language development as an effect of reading digital picture books in homes and kindergartens. Through joint practice with kindergarten teachers and multilingual caregivers in the Sandnes municipality, where approximately 20% of all children are multilingual, SPrELL will contribute to the competence development regarding the educational work with multilingual children's second-language learning through the exploration and evaluation of shared reading practices in kindergarten and at home. In collaboration with the digital reading service Lexplore, SPrELL will enable the development of 20 digital picture books, offering a choice of language by combining research-based knowledge of children's reading of digital books and existing technology for digitising print books. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods SPrELL will answer: - What characterises reading practices in multilingual children's homes and kindergartens? - Do the digital books available through the DBP strengthen second-language learning? - Does access to a DBP contribute to closer collaboration between homes and kindergartens? - What experiences do kindergarten teachers and multilingual caregivers have in their collaboration on children’s second language learning through reading at home and in kindergarten? SPrELL will complete 20 digital books, give a report on the characteristics of reading practices in homes and kindergartens, give a report on an intervention on second-language learning reading digital books and publish web-based resources for enhancing the quality of professional pedagogical work and competence development in collaboration between kindergartens and homes related to reading books in different languages.

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FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren