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Talking About Measuring in the Kindergarten: Linguistic Means in Small Group Interactions

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This paper deals with the support of language learning in settings planned for mathematical learning by kindergarten teachers in small group interactions. Using qualitative and linguistic analysis tools, we will reconstruct patterns of language use, the correction strategies of kindergarten teachers, and their language sensible organization related to measuring and magnitude.

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Notes

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    Depending on the reaction, the kindergarten teacher (sub-) consciously marks the utterance as mistake or a somewhat less severe deviation.

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    Because we use GAT transcription with autograph score style, the change of speaker does not require a new line.

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    The German pronoun den can relate to things (this) with masculine genera or male people (him).

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    Although the first attempt seems to be the right one, since you would assume Friedel’s body length rather to be about 120 cm than 90 cm. Berna, however, does not use this as a correction strategy. The counting process receives un-scrutinized validity.

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    The letters behind the speakers refer to the label of the situation.

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    Duden, 2013; 26. Ed., Dudenverlag, Berlin.

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    Duden, 2013; 26. Aufl., Dudenverlag, Berlin.

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    There are two ways of building the past participle in German. Depending on the kind of verb (so-called strong or weak verbs), you have “ge-stem-t” or “ge-stem-en.” Messen belongs to the latter class.

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    Birgit Brandt & Sarah Keuch

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  1. University of Education Karlsruhe, Institute of Mathematics & Computer Science, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christiane Benz

  2. University of Bamberg, Mathematics & Computer Science Education, Bamberg, Germany

    Anna S. Steinweg

  3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Hedwig Gasteiger

  4. University of Education Karlsruhe, Institute of Mathematics & Computer Science, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Priska Schöner

  5. University of Education Karlsruhe, Institute of Mathematics & Computer Science, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Helene Vollmuth

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Brandt, B., Keuch, S. (2018). Talking About Measuring in the Kindergarten: Linguistic Means in Small Group Interactions. In: Benz, C., Steinweg, A., Gasteiger, H., Schöner, P., Vollmuth, H., Zöllner, J. (eds) Mathematics Education in the Early Years. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78220-1_11

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