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style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ed 199RA <st1:place
w:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Preschool
Peer Talk and Emergent Literacy Research Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need
Spanish-English bilingual undergraduate Research
Assistants (ED 199RA students) to participate in data collection,
transcribing,
and coding for a project on preschool children’s peer talk and its
influences
on emergent literacy.<span style=""> </span>Students are
required to be mature and responsible and to have a GPA of 3.0 or above.<span
style=""> </span>They must be willing to work on the project a
minimum of 5 hours per week.<span style=""> </span>Preference
will be given to students who are willing to stay on the project
through two
quarters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">The project
is a naturalistic study of classroom peer
interaction, although children’s elicited stories will also be
collected.<span style=""> </span>The study investigates how
Spanish-English
bilingual preschoolers (3-5 years of age) interact, negotiate, pretend,
and
tell stories with their peers in the preschool classroom, and how peer
interactions relate to their development of narrative skills.<span
style=""> </span>At various points, responsibilities will
include assisting with collecting videorecordings of peer interactions,
watching videotaped peer interactions, writing the language and action
down
from videotapes, translating language and action to English, developing
stimuli, and using discourse analytic techniques to code the talk and</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">interactions
for
various features.<span style=""> </span>The study provides
research experience for students interested in research in early
childhood
development and education, language development, and narrative
development.<span style=""> </span></span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interested
students contact Professor Amy Kyratzis,
Department of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Email:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kyratzis@education.ucsb.edu">kyratzis@education.ucsb.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Catherine McConney
Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Psychology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660
(805) 893-2844
(805) 893-4303 Fax
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mcconney@psych.ucsb.edu">mcconney@psych.ucsb.edu</a></pre>
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