Jane Torr

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Jane Torr is affiliated with the following schools: University of Melbourne, Macquarie University

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Jane Torr's Degrees

Masters Early Childhood Education University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Jane Torr is an Australian academic in the fields of early childhood language and literacy development in home and early childhood education and care settings. She is an honorary associate in the department of educational studies at Macquarie University, where she has been teaching and researching for over 30 years. Torr's research draws on systemic functional linguistic theory to explore the relationship between context and meaning in adult-child interactions, and the implications for children's learning. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as publications in professional journals.

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Talking about Picture Books: The Influence of Maternal Education on Four-Year-Old Children’s Talk with Mothers and Pre-School Teachers (2004) (47)
A Comparison Between Informational and Narrative Picture Books as a Context for Reasoning Between Caregivers and 4‐year‐old Children (1999) (43)
Australian Chinese parents’ language attitudes and practices relating to their children’s bilingual development prior to school (2014) (32)
The pleasure of recognition: intertextuality in the talk of preschoolers during shared reading with mothers and teachers (2007) (30)
Singaporean Early Childhood Teachers' beliefs about Literacy Development in a Multilingual Context (2007) (27)
From Ideology to Productivity: Reforming Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia (2009) (27)
Sex Chromatin in Oral Smears (1956) (23)
A longitudinal investigation of mothers’ mind‐related talk to their 12‐ to 24‐month‐old infants (2007) (22)
Infant–toddler Educators' Language Support Practices during Snack-time (2016) (22)
Infants and toddlers: how visible are they in the Early Years Learning Framework? (2015) (21)
Ants, apples and the ABCs: The use of commercial phonics programmes in prior-to-school children’s services (2012) (20)
Educator Talk in Long Day Care Nurseries: How Context Shapes Meaning (2016) (19)
From microfunction to metaphor : learning language and learning through the language (2005) (18)
Infant Educators’ Use of Pedagogical Questioning: Relationships With the Context of Interaction and Educators’ Qualifications (2018) (18)
Learning ‘special words’ (2006) (18)
Pre-Packaging Preschool Literacy: What Drives Early Childhood Teachers to Use Commercially Produced Phonics Programs in Prior to School Settings (2014) (18)
Teaching Literacy in English Language in Singaporean Preschools: Exploring Teachers' Beliefs about What Works Best (2008) (18)
The emergence of grammatical metaphor : literacy-oriented expressions in the everyday speech of young children (2003) (17)
Educators’ use of commanding language to direct infants’ behaviour: relationship to educators’ qualifications and implications for language learning opportunities (2019) (17)
Images as a resource for supporting vocabulary learning: a multimodal analysis of Thai EFL tablet apps for primary school children (2017) (15)
‘Parents don’t want their children to speak their home language’: how do educators negotiate partnerships with Chinese parents regarding their children’s use of home language and English in early childhood settings? (2014) (15)
KARYOTYPING OF TRANSEXUALISTS. (1964) (13)
Infants’ experience with ‘near and clear’ educator talk: individual variation and its relationship to indicators of quality (2018) (12)
“He's got a mind of his own”: The development of a framework for determining mothers’ beliefs about their infants’ minds (2008) (12)
Infants’ Experiences of Shared Reading with Their Educators in Early Childhood Education and Care Centres: An Observational Study (2019) (12)
The language of friendship: Genre in the conversations of preschool children (2014) (11)
Early language and literacy: review of research with implications for early literacy programs at NSW public libraries (2018) (10)
Indigenous and Anglo-Australian Mothers From Different Educational Backgrounds (2008) (9)
The development of modality in the pre-school years: Language as a vehicle for understanding possibilities and obligations in everyday life (1998) (9)
Learning English as a Foreign Language at Home: The Practices of Taiwanese Mothers and Their Preschoolers (2011) (9)
Educators’ use of questioning as a pedagogical strategy in long day care nurseries (2016) (8)
Literacy and the language of science in Year 1 classrooms: Implications for children's learning (1997) (8)
How ‘shared’ is shared reading: Book-focused infant–educator interactions in long day-care centres (2018) (7)
'The Mouse Is Not a Toy': Young Children's Interactions with E-games (2008) (7)
Reasoning as a Pedagogical Strategy in Infant-Addressed Talk in Early Childhood Education Centres: Relationships with Educators’ Qualifications and Communicative Function (2019) (7)
Classroom Discourse: Children from English Speaking and Non-English Speaking Backgrounds. (1993) (6)
A Study of Reasoning Talk Between Australian Chinese Mothers and Their Preschool Children: What Messages Are Mothers Sending? (2016) (6)
Language development in early childhood : learning how to mean (2015) (6)
Multimodal texts and emergent literacy in early childhood (2008) (6)
Factors related to the home teaching of English language to preschool aged children : a Taiwanese study (2011) (5)
Creating pretence and sharing friendship: modal expressions in children's play (2015) (5)
Reading and Reinterpreting Picture Books on Children’s Television: Implications for Young Children’s Narrative Literacy (2016) (5)
The emergence of grammatical metaphor (2003) (4)
Taiwanese Mothers' Motivations for Teaching English to Their Young Children at Home (2012) (4)
He's Got a Mind of His Own: A Framework for Determining Mothers' Beliefs about Their Infants' Minds (2008) (4)
Language development in early childhood (2005) (3)
Mealtime talk as a language learning context: Australian Chinese parents’ language use in interactions with their preschool-aged children at the dinner table (2019) (3)
Literacy assessment : understanding and recording meaningful data (2007) (3)
Reading aloud as performance and its representation on television programmes for children (2016) (2)
Anterior Spinal Artery (1958) (2)
What it is all about: topic choices in young children's play (2015) (2)
Thinking and Saying in the Classroom: An Exploration of the Use of Projection by Teachers and Children (2000) (2)
The Relationship Between Mothers' Beliefs About Their Infant's Mind and Use of Psychological Language During Social Interaction (2004) (1)
Taiwanese mothers as their child's first English teacher: issues and challenges (2013) (1)
DIVISION OF INTERCOSTAL ARTERIES (1957) (1)
Playfulness in Children’s Picture Books about Bedtime: Ambivalence and Subversion in the Bedtime Story (2003) (1)
Evaluating a children’s television show as a vehicle for learning about historical artefacts: the value of multimodal discourse analysis (2021) (1)
Infants and toddlers: how visible are they in the Early Years Learning Framework? (2015) (0)
Teachers' Speech and Gestures in Primary EFL Classrooms Using Tablet Technology: A Critical Multimodal Comparison of Pedagogic Discourse (2021) (0)
Factors contributing to Thai teachers' uptake of tablet technology in EFL primary classrooms (2017) (0)
Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers (2023) (0)
Chromosomal Sex and Abnormal Sexual Development (1958) (0)
Shared reading as a practice for fostering early learning in an Early Childhood Education and Care centre: a naturalistic, comparative study of one infant's experiences with two educators (2020) (0)
Review of Kidspeak (2000) (0)
Educator Talk in Long Day Care Nurseries: How Context Shapes Meaning (2015) (0)
Infants’ Experiences of Shared Reading with Their Educators in Early Childhood Education and Care Centres: An Observational Study (2019) (0)
Reading and Reinterpreting Picture Books on Children’s Television: Implications for Young Children’s Narrative Literacy (2015) (0)
Book Reviews: G. Robinson, U. Eickelkamp, J. Goodnow and I. Katz (eds), Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention. Darwin, NT: Charles Darwin University Press, 2008. 266 pp. ISBN 13: 978—0—98038—468—0 (2009) (0)
List of Reviewers (2008) (0)
Assessing Mental Health across Cultures [Book Review] (2004) (0)

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