20.500.12556/RUL-154403 Future kindergarten educators' views regarding the role of language as one of the core kindergarten curriculum areas Kindergarten educators represent the first contact of children with the institutional environment. In this article we assume that kindergarten educators have a significant impact on children's perception of their first/mother tongue and their language development. Language is one of the core kindergarten curriculum areas in which the educator needs to be adequately empowered to set an example for the children, while at the same time developing their communicative competence which is the basis for (later) efficient communication. We carried out a questionnaire-based survey involving 236 students pursuing early childhood education in all three public universities in the Republic of Slovenia which prepares students for the role of kindergarten educators in order to study their perceptions of the language. The questionnaire-based survey was answered by students in their first and third years i.e., when starting and finishing their studies. A large majority of future kindergarten educators consider their positive attitude towards language in general to be extremely important for kindergarten children as language forms the basis for all other curriculum areas. Also, when surveyed, almost all future kindergarten educators considered it essential to be proficient in the language and to encourage language development in children by following their own example. Furthermore, they believe it is important to have a well-developed linguistic capability (language knowledge), to have the capability of crafting linguistically accurate written content and to master a suitable literary expression. educator’s example future kindergarten educators kindergarten linguistic capability mother tongue bodoči vzgojitelji lingvistična zmožnost true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Podatek o licenci CC-BY 4.0 je naveden na prvi strani članka (https://pdf.eu-jer.com/EU-JER_13_2_835.pdf). (Datum opombe 13. 2. 2024) Članek v reviji 2024-02-13 12:07:12 2024-02-13 12:07:13 2024-02-14 03:46:39 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 835-849 iss. 2 Vol. 13 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 373.2.016:81 2165-8714 10.12973/eu-jer.13.2.835 184517379 RAZ_Petek_Tomaz_2024.pdf RAZ_Petek_Tomaz_2024.pdf 1 AFB9DF4C385B70102ABB0442C1B49AA3 1b6c4f6138eef1d693fd506241fa2631a2b0a9b67057e4cbe8c3ad8d6c3c42f5 1783352b-ca62-11ee-a430-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180814 https://www.eu-jer.com/future-kindergarten-educators-views-regarding-the-role-of-language-as-one-of-the-core-kindergarten-curriculum-areas 0 f04f9d03-ca61-11ee-a430-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180813 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0