Language Matters Lab

Children’s Language, Storytelling, and Emergent Literacy

These projects, completed by Master’s students in Child Studies, explored (a) children’s language, storytelling, and literacy, (b) ways of supporting these abilities through storybook reading, play, and creative activities, or (c) adolescents’ literacy engagement. For further information, contact: language.matters.lab@gmail.com

• Supporting Children’s Engagement with Storybooks Through Dialogic Reading, Story-Acting,
and Creative Arts

America Uribe

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Sept. 2024

• Children’s Stories: Fantasy, Family, Fights, and Friendship

Sadia Tariq

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June 2024

• Supporting the Play of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lilas Kodjo

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May 2024

• Fostering Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge Through Storybook Reading and Play

Ana Cecilia Tello

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April 2024

• Fostering Children’s Story Comprehension Through Enriched Storytelling and Story Acting

Hania Messaike

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Aug. 2023

• Storytelling and Story Acting in a Kindergarten Classroom

Jessica Samuel

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Jan. 2022

• Sparkle in the Narratives of Kindergarteners

Maleika Mohammed

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Aug. 2021

• Supporting Emergent Writing in a Preschool Classroom 

Alexandria Pistilli

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Jan. 2020

• Bienvenue: Supporting the Language of Children in a Québec Welcome Class

Elana Amanatidis-Saadé

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April 2019

• Storytelling in the Classroom: An Adapted Verson of Vivian Paley’s Storytelling Curriculum

Myckhaila Joab

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Aug. 2019

• Narratives of Chinese Children: The Effects of Age and Genre

Lin Zhang

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Aug. 2019

• The Bookstagram Effect: Adolescents’ Voluntary Literacy Engagement on Instagram

Rima Hammoudi

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June 2018

• English or French? How Second Language Learners Discriminate
Languages with a Shared Alphabet

Krystina Raymond

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Jan. 2018

• Facilitating Children’s Second Language within a Play-Based Childcare Centre

Shaunessa Boyle

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April 2016