Abstract

The purpose with my examination paper was to investigate how children’s language are developed and how to stimulate it as a pedagogue in preschool.

In my investigation I have used qualitative interviews of four preschool teachers. The interviews were taped, and the questions were written in advance and used as support.

In the literature I have chosen to describe how children’s language development seems, different language theories, what the curriculum (Lpfö98) says about language development and the role pedagogue’s has in stimulating children’s language.

I found it most interesting to study this literature and to take part of different preschool teachers’ views on children’s language development. The results of my interviews show that all the pedagogues are well aware of children’s language and they have many suggestions of how to stimulate it in their work at preschool. They also claimed that this stimulation is a continuous work.

Some of the observations I made was that all pedagogues express difficulties depending on stress and lack of time due to big groups of children. All the teachers wish to have more time for each child.