English for Child Development

Language Skills
for Parents and Providers

by Marianne Brems, Marsha Chan, and Julaine Rosner

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English for Child Development is a comprehensive text designed to meet the language requirements of adults preparing for the field of early childhood education. It provides practice for intermediate to high intermediate language learners in the integrated skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Thus, the program can be used as the core resource in a language development class for early childhood educators, child caregivers, and parents. The target audience of the book is students in the following environments:

community college and university ESL classes
adult and community education classes
community based English tutoring programs
parenting classes
English classes for vocational education and workertraining programs
au-pair English training programs

This integrated skills textbook:

teaches English specific to early childhood education
focuses on the academic language for students of child development
gives practical assignments for communicating orally and in writing as child care providers, in-service teachers, and parents
embraces the linguistic and cultural diversity of children and adults
includes games, songs, creative projects, and problem-solving tasks

Topics include:

Documenting development
Describing children's development
Factors in child development
Domains of child development

Child development objectives include:

Describing a child’s appearance
Describing a child care environment
Assessing a child’s development level
Writing objective child observations
Filling out child development profiles

Audio files, accessible online, contain:

Songs
Readings
Pronunciation exercises
Conversation models
Listening passages
Dictations

English for Child Development

Language Skills for Parents and Providers

Language Skills
for Parents and Providers