Author : Virginia Tompkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)
Book Synopsis Mother-child Narratives in Different Contexts by : Virginia Tompkins
Download or read book Mother-child Narratives in Different Contexts written by Virginia Tompkins and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, several control variables were considered including children's age and language, socioeconomic status (i.e., mothers' education and family income), children's home literacy environment (assessed by parent questionnaire), and mothers' affective quality during mother-child narratives. Hierarchical regressions were performed predicting children's emergent literacy outcomes controlling for factors that were related to predictor and outcome variables. Several independent relations were found between mothers' narrative variables and children's emergent literacy outcomes. Mothers' AM elaborative statements and elaborative tag-questions predicted children's story comprehension; and mothers' repetitive wh-questions in the book context were negatively related to children's story comprehension. Mothers' AM causal comments and mothers' obstacle comments in the book context predicted children's picture sequencing scores. Mothers' AM goal comments predicted global ratings of children's story generation; and global ratings of mothers' AM narratives predicted children's episodic coherence in their story generations. These findings have important implications for the environments that support children's early literacy before they begin formal schooling.