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• THE USE OF ENGLISH MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

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  Magdolna Nemes

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  190

  The flow of information in the digital age is facilitated not only by traditional media such as television, radio, and print but also by new media such as the internet, desktops, and integrated computers, tablets, and smartphones, etc. The presence of IT tools is quite common these days among kindergarten-aged children (3-6/7), and even toddlers can use them on a daily basis. Moreover, modern pedagogy is unthinkable without digital devices that have become integral parts of innovations such as game-based learning, media-based learning, and edutainment. There are several language schools and bilingual creches where they accept very young children and babies. It is said that parents know their child best and children spend a lot of time with their parents. In consequence, this provides an excellent opportunity for parents to raise a bilingual child even if it is not his/her first language. In our paper we are combining these two, currently, central issues: the use of English-language media and early childhood language-learning, as only limited research is available about it. We are going to present the results of empirical research carried out mainly in kindergartens in Debrecen, which focused on early second language learning and the children’s use of media. Our research has two goals, so the questionnaires asked parents about the use of foreign-language media, its content and the time children spend consuming English content. In addition, we were interested in the parents’ attitude to their children’s English-language media use. We analyzed our data in the framework of early second language learning. Our research was carried out within the Early Childhood Research Group run by the Faculty of Education for Children and Special Educational Needs of the University of Debrecen. The research was carried out between October 2016 and January 2017.

• THE EFFECT OF SARS-COVID-19 VIRUS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN HUNGARY

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  Anikó Vargáné Nagy

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  243

  This paper is a report. The paper analyzes the effects of the pandemic of SARS-COVID-19 in early childhood education and care in Hungary, especially in kindergartens. The paper presents the local and government decrees, which control the operation of kindergartens from March 2020 till September 2020. The paper presents the early childhood educators’ and assistants1 extraordinary activities during the pandemic and those challenges they had to face.

• MAKING OBSERVATIONS - HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION

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  Kathy Brodie

  Bálint Attila Farkas

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  128

  The text is the translation from Kathy Brodie’s, an early years consultant’s, paper (2014) about observing children. The paper lists several ways of observing children and also discusses choosing the right method.