The Role of Early Childhood Teachers in Language and Literacy Skills

This report examines the multifaceted role of early childhood teachers (ECT) in fostering language, emergent literacy, and multi-literacy skills in children. It discusses various strategies ECTs employ to support children's learning, including interactive games and culturally responsive teaching methods. The report highlights the importance of ECTs in constructing multi-literacy environments by creating inclusive group activities and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds. It also analyzes the influence of societal factors, such as parenting styles and stereotypes, on children's language and literacy development, emphasizing the need for a supportive and unbiased learning environment. The conclusion underscores the vital role of teachers in shaping children's learning abilities and cultural awareness, while also acknowledging the impact of societal norms on their development. Desklib offers a variety of solved assignments and study tools for students.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Strategies adapted by ECT to support various learning...............................................................3
Strategies adapted by ECT to support children & families..........................................................4
Importance of ECT role in constructing multi literacy environment...........................................4
Influence of various factors on Language and multi literacy skills of children...........................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Language learning is defined as one of the most exiting as well as difficult activities
which the children achieve during their childhood. The children face various problems which are
regarding grammar and pronunciation as they do these wrong. Emergent literacy learning is
defined as one of those ideas that the children start learning literacy at the early stage, before
their school learning starts. Multi literacy learning is defined as the ability to find, interpret,
generate and transmit meaning among visuals, musical and various forms of communication.
This report will discuss various strategies that a teacher will use to provide support to
children as well as their families and language of the children. It will also discuss the importance
of a teacher in learning of the children and how children's get influences by the environment.
MAIN BODY
Strategies adapted by ECT to support various learning
There are various strategies which an early child teacher can adapt for developing the
language, emergent learning and multi literacy. One of them can be playing game of describing,
guessing and turn taking. In these children will have to feel the object and describe the object or
racing and various other games (Masten, and Barnes, 2018).
This is idea motivates the children to play the game and interact with other children. In
this idea there are various other games also which can be played involving the children's. These
games improve their vocabulary, nonverbal communication, learning new words and various
other skills. This idea improves the children's involvement in the class and understand the other
children who are in the class.
The current idea will make the children's pronunciation and learning capability. It is
because they will have to pronounce the words of the object they feel. Also, when playing other
types of the games they will have to speak with other children and interact with them. It will help
them to develop their communication skills. This will also encourage them to speak various
languages which will be with the help of their teachers as well as other children (Weatherby-Fell,
Duchesne, and Neilsen-Hewett, 2019).
In this one of the games can be singing rhymes with the last letter of previous rhymes. It
will help them to remember the rhymes and its pronunciation and sing with various actions. It
will help to learn those rhymes in a faster pattern as they will speak with the other children as

well as their teacher. In this teacher will have to ensure that all the children's are participating in
the activities. As the teacher will ensure that all the children are singing it will motivate the
children that teacher will appreciate them when they will sing it in correct way as well as with
actions. This will be beneficial for the children as they will learn various things during the
games.
Strategies adapted by ECT to support children & families
There are various strategies which a teacher can adapt to teach English to the children
where the English is not the main language. Here the teacher will have to ensure that they will
support both the children and their families during the learning (Setiyadi, 2020).
Here the teacher will respect the cultures of every child as well as their families wishes. It
will ensure that the children will like to learn with the teacher and will do whatever the teacher
will be instructing them. This will also help the teacher as it will improve their effectiveness and
children will behave in respectful way during the class.
In this first teacher will have to make the children feel welcome and valued by
celebrating festivals in their culture. Interact with the children about their culture and traditions
and learn more about their festivals. It will help the teacher to understand what the children have
learnt in their early childhood and what are the things which they have to teach them to improve
their learning capacity (Alibekova, and Urinboyeva, 2020).
The teacher will also interact with the families of the children's and learning more about
what they want their children to be involved in and what are the things which their children's
does not eat. It will ensure that the families are happy with the working of the teacher and ensure
children's are safe. As there are various allergies which children's might have and if teacher
knows about it then they will ensure that the children will not eat such things.
This is suitable as the teacher will be able to connect with the children and understand
them in a better manner. It is suitable as the teacher will ensure the methods with the help of
which they will make the learning experience easy and understandable for the children.
Importance of ECT role in constructing multi literacy environment
It is important that the early childhood teacher are involved in constructing multi literacy
environment. As the teacher is the only one who can teach the children to work in a particular

manner and understand why it is necessary. There are various ways which a teacher adapts while
constructing the environment which will encourage the children for various tasks (Cheung
2020).
The ways which can be adapted are involving every child in a group activity where there
are multi cultured children in a school. This will ensure that the children learn various new things
and various languages while working with other children. Here the teacher will have to ensure
that the children are in a safe environment as there may arise various conflicts in such an
environment. It will ensure that children will learn various nonverbal communication as
sometimes they will be required to communicate some things without speaking something. This
will make the children motivated for coming to school and learning new things. It will develop
the habit of respecting the culture of other students (Sumitra, Nurunnisa, and Lestari, 2021).
In these children will learn and develop various new skills and construct their own
experiences. The teacher will ensure that all the children's are learning various things from their
classmates while conducting the activities. When the teacher is conducting activities they will
have to ensure that the children's are not harming themselves and other children.
Here the teacher deliberately forms the groups of multi cultured children so that it will
help them in the long run. It will make the children form their own perception regarding certain
culture and not depend on what others are saying. Teacher is most important as they will be
unbiased while making some decision and not depend on the particular culture. The teacher will
also ensure that they are teaching various new things to their students with the help of which they
will develop various new skills which will be beneficial for the long run.
Influence of various factors on Language and multi literacy skills of children
There are various societal factors which will affect the skills of the child in negative way.
One of them is parenting styles which is a very important and regular a child gets during the
upbringing. If it happens that the parents are adapting permissive parenting pattern where they
will be imposing demands, continuously set the limit, and various others. It will make the child
feel they are not developed according to their parents and will not develop according to their own
wishes. It will lower the confidence level of the children as well as lower the self-esteem.
Children's will not be able to develop their social skills which will not be good for them in the
future (Ndayambaje, Umwari, and Yulia, 2020).

If it happens that there are various stereotype which is imposed on the children, they will
not develop the ability to form their own opinion. This is not good for the mindset for the
modern children as they will develop anxiety and develop depression for the children. It will also
be opposed to the teaching pattern which the teacher will be adapting and the children will not be
able to go to school. It will make them disrespect the culture of the other people and make the
other children feel lower. This will develop various negative thought among the children and
they will not be able to develop fully in manner where they respect the culture of others.
If the children are living in a society where there are pre-determined targets set for them,
and they are being compared to other children, it will make them feel like they are not competent
enough to fulfil those targets. It is not good for the children when they are in stage of
development as it will reduce the quality of development.
Conclusion
It is concluded from this report that the teacher play an important role in the development
of the child. It is discussed the way they develop the learning ability of the child which will be
beneficial for them in the future. The report also conclude that teacher helps the teacher in
developing respect for the other cultures and learns new things which are related to the culture of
the other children. It is analysed that there are societal norms and parenting style which stops the
development of children.

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Cheung, P., 2020. Teachers as role models for physical activity: Are preschool children more
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