Tables of contents

Steroids and standardised tests: meritocracy and the myth of fair play in the United States

Jonathan Gayles

1

Supervision beliefs of primary school supervisors in Turkey

Kürşad Yılmaz; Murat Taşdan; Ebru Oğuz

9

Effects of leadership behaviour on the faculty commitment of humanities departments in the University of Mysore, India: regarding factors of age group, educational qualifications and gender

Meimanat Lonita Tabbodi

21

Classroom environment as a predictor of behaviour disorders among children with learning disabilities in the UAE

Vivian Khamis

27

Campaigns by parents to set up new schools in England: issues and barriers

Hazel Pennell; Anne West

37

Action research in schools - an important factor in teachers' professional development

Janez Vogrinc; Milena Valenčič Zuljan

53

Do state examinations measure teacher quality?

Pamela Esprívalo Harrell

65

The self-perception and cultural dimensions: cross-cultural comparison

Adebowale W. Akande

81

A study of sociolinguistic characteristics of Taiwan children's peer-talk in a Mandarin-English-speaking preschool

Li-Chen Wang and Eunsook Hyun

3

The deafening silence: discussing children's drawings for understanding and addressing marginalization

Panayiotis Angelides and Antonia Michaelidou

27

Grandparents as educators and carers in China

Berenice Nyland, Xiaodong Zeng, Chris Nyland and Ly Tran

46

Parental goals and parenting practices of upper-middle-class Korean mothers with preschool children

Ju-Hee Park and Young In Kwon

58

Care and business orientations in the delivery of childcare: an exploratory study

Verity Campbell-Barr

76

Hidden spaces and places in the preschool: withdrawal strategies in preschool children's peer cultures

Lovisa Skånfors, Annica Löfdahl, and Solveig Hägglund

94

Book review: Food and Health in Early Childhood: A Holistic Approach. By Deborah Albon and Penny Mukherji

Sharon Smith

110

Early learning and development standards in East Asia and the Pacific: experiences from eight countries

Junko Miyahara and Cliff Meyers

17

A comparison of curricular practices in Chinese kindergartens: the influence of curriculum reform

Pan Yuejuan and Liu Yan

33

Early childhood education voucher in Hong Kong: perspectives from online communities

Hui Li, Jessie Ming Sin Wong and X. Christine Wan

49

Early childhood development policy and programming in India: critical issues and directions for paradigm change

Adarsh Sharma, Rekha Sharma Sen and Renu Gulati

65

Maternal self-esteem and locus of control relates to the quality of young children’s environment (HOME) in rural Andhra Pradesh, India: research and policy implications

Sylvia Fernandez, Shahnaz Vazir, Peggy Bentley, Susan Johnson and Patrice Engle

85

How evidence can be used to inform policy: a case study of early childhood evidence-based policy development

Pia Rebello Britto, Adrian Cerezo and C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

101

Not weaving but drowning? The child.com in New Zealand early childhood pedagogies

Kaye Cederman

119

Asia Pacific regional early childhood policy review

Judith Evans

131

Editorial

Douglas Allford and Norbert Pachler

131

Guest editorial

James Milton, Helmut Daller, David Malvern, Paul Meara, Brian Richards and Jeanine Treffers-Daller

135

Vocabulary size and the skills of listening, reading and writing

Lars Stenius Stæhr

139

The link between vocabulary knowledge and spoken L2 fluency

Heather Hilton

153

Vocabulary breadth in French L2 learners

Annabelle David

167

Vocabulary use during conversation: a cross-sectional study of development from Year 9 to Year 13 among learners of Spanish and French

Emma Marsden and Annabelle David

181

Word frequency and trends in the development of French vocabulary in lower-intermediate students during Year 12 in English schools

Brian Richards, David Malvern and Suzanne Graham

199

Eleven pets and 20 ways to express one’s opinion: the vocabulary learners of German acquire at English secondary schools

Martina Häcker

215

Vocabulary uptake from informal learning tasks

James Milton

227

Intensive vocabulary learning: a case study

Tess Fitzpatrick, Ibrahim Al-Qarni and Paul Meara

239

Metaphor awareness in teaching vocabulary

Marika Kalyuga and Slava Kalyuga

249

Fragmentation and consolidation: recent articles on vocabulary acquisition

Elspeth Broady

259

Book reviews

267