Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children’s language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families
Parent-child book sharing and reminiscing conversations are two important home activities that promote young children’s early language and literacy skills. Yet extant research has focused on middle-class Anglo European families, with relatively little attention given to styles of book sharing and r...
| Autores Principales: | Carmiol, Ana M., Sparks, Alison, Conejo Bolaños, Luis Diego |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2022
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http://hdl.handle.net/11056/23279 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.11.013 |
| Sumario: |
Parent-child book sharing and reminiscing conversations are two important home activities that promote
young children’s early language and literacy skills. Yet extant research has focused on middle-class Anglo European families, with relatively little attention given to styles of book sharing and reminiscing in other
cultural contexts. To further explore home practices and children’s development in Latin America, we
examined the relationships between caregiver’s conversational style while reminiscing and book sharing
and children’s emerging language and literacy skills. The sample included 108 low-income, Costa Rican
caregivers and their preschool-aged children. Results from cluster analyses identified two types of care giver book sharing styles, the story builder and the story teller; and two types of reminiscing styles, the
high elicitor and the low elicitor. These styles uncovered different links to child participation in conver sation and emerging language and literacy skills. Findings are discussed in light of furthering culturally
appropriate research, practices, and policy to support early childhood and family literacy for young chil dren and their caregivers in Costa Rica. |
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