A Longitudinal Study of Maternal Interaction Strategies during Joint Book-Reading in Taiwan

This longitudinal study examines change in maternal interaction strategies in Taiwanese mothers across time, and the synchronic and diachronic relationships between maternal interaction strategies and children's language and early literacy skills. Forty-two mother-child dyads participated in th...

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Published in:Journal of child language 2020-03, Vol.47 (2), p.401-417
Main Authors: Chang, Chien-Ju, Luo, Ya-Hui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aptitude
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Early literacy
Educational Attainment
Emergent Literacy
Families & family life
Female
Foreign Countries
Grade 4
Humans
Infant
Inference
Language
Language Acquisition
Language Development
Language Skills
Learning Processes
Literacy
Longitudinal Studies
Low income groups
Male
Measures (Individuals)
Mother Attitudes
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Parent Child Relationship
Parent-child relations
Parents & parenting
Preschool Children
Reading
Reading Achievement
Reading Aloud to Others
Reading comprehension
Shared reading
Skills
Taiwan
Toddlers
Young Children
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Summary:This longitudinal study examines change in maternal interaction strategies in Taiwanese mothers across time, and the synchronic and diachronic relationships between maternal interaction strategies and children's language and early literacy skills. Forty-two mother-child dyads participated in this study. Their interactions during joint book-reading were tape-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed when the children were fourteen, twenty-six, and thirty-six months of age. The children received a battery of language and early literacy tests when they were thirty-six months old. Findings showed that Taiwanese mothers adjusted their use of interaction strategies as their children grew. Maternal use of description, performance, prediction inference, and print-related talk were positively correlated with their children's language and literacy skills. Significant negative correlations were found between use of task-behavioral regulation strategy and text reading in mothers and their children's language performance. This study suggests that age-appropriate interaction strategies are important for children's language and early literacy development.
ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000919000746