Nowadays, where change is the only constant in our lives, the adjustment to social frames and successful confrontation with life challenges has a decisive meaning. In my thesis I have focused on the language education simply due to the importance of quality institutional education. Especially I wanted to find out what kind of influence can a picture book have on the development of child's vocabulary.
At the beginning of theoretical part I defined theoretical basis of speech, its development and introduced the development of child's vocabulary. Further on I analysed Kindergarten Curriculum (1999), especially the linguistic field. At the same time I also checked how is the linguistic field defined in The Education System in The Republic of Slovenia (2011) and in The Resolution on The National Programme for Language Policy (2014–2018). In the last segment of theoretical part I talked about the importance of family reading and kindergarten reading. I also defined picture book and its characteristics.
Afterwards came an empirical part, where I wanted to reveal the ways interviewed childcare workers use picture book in the activities of preschool education and whether it is used in accordance with the guidelines of Kindergarten Curriculum (1999). I also wanted to learn about the goals childcare workers use picture book in the activities of preschool education for.
Survey results showed that interviewed childcare workers mostly use picture book in the combination of reading, watching ilustrations and talking about the contents of picture book. They use picture book in accordance with curricular guidelines with purpose to improve child's vocabulary as well as to make written and verbal language easier. In the First Age Group of Kindergarten they mostly use wordless picture books and later, in the Second Age Group of Kindergarten, they mostly use picture books with text. The results also confirmed that interviewed childcare workers use picture book in the activities of preschool education to fulfill the goals in the field of language as they are written in Kindergarten Curriculum (1999).
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