It takes two to tango - how teacher-child interactions help advance children's emotion knowledge.

ABSTRACT: Because young children's emotion knowledge and language skills grow in tandem and contribute to their success in school, the Feeling Thinking Talking (FTT) teacher training, which addresses both areas, was developed. In this training, preschool and kindergarten teachers were taught to use language support strategies (LSSs) and responsive child-directed speech when talking about emotions with the children in their care. Whether these educational practices in teacher-child talk improve children's emotion knowledge was examined with N = 275 children (Mage = 49.86 months, SD = 7.21, range = 35-66 months at t1) who were cared for by teachers in N = 16 training classrooms and N = 13 waitlist-control classrooms, which were nested in 13 centers. Children were individually test

SUBMITTER: Hormann O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12533283 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature