Den pedagogiska måltiden : En studie om språkutveckling och språklig medvetenhet i förskolans måltidssituation

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how preschool teachers act as well as express themselves to children during mealtime, in order to promote language development. In addition, the purpose is to discover how preschool teachers view the mealtime situation from a linguistic perspective. The research methods used in this study are observation and interviews. These serve as a complement to one another, in order to demonstrate how preschool teachers act and express themselves during mealtimes and additionally, what kind of attitude these preschool teachers have towards the meal situation as a language development opportunity. The result shows that preschool teachers act and promote language expression in several different ways during mealtimes, by taking advantage of the children's interest in conversation as well as through confirmation and repetition. Furthermore, a language development activity is used to encourage language development. Findings also show that preschool teachers view language development as a broad area and one that occurs constantly throughout all situations. The meal situation is seen as an important opportunity, in which preschool teachers have the advantage of being able to converse with the children.