Bringing the words out of the Montessori box: Towards a Montessori system for enhancing language development from birth to six years
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Anecdotal evidence from early years practitioners in the UK reflects a perception of gradual, but persistent, decline in the extent of native English-speaking children’s vocabulary and oral communication skills when they start nursery aged 2–3 years. This paper will examine the scope and reasons for the perceived decline as background, before surveying and evaluating national programmes implemented in the UK to remedy it. Then, building on how the Montessori approach supports and enhances children’s language development during the early years, a proposal for a Montessori-based remedial system to develop and extend the range of individual children’s vocabulary, grammatical forms, and syntactic structures, in the order in which native speakers of English acquire them, will be outlined.
Source: Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji
Author: Helen Prochazka
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405338542