High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

 

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Авторы: Sparks, Alison, Carmiol-Barboza, Ana María, Ríos, Marcela
Формат: artículo original
Статус:Versión publicada
Дата публикации:2013
Описание:Abstract. The relationship between narrative coherence in mother-child conversations about past events and children’s concurrent emergent literacy was examined in a sample of 32 Spanish-speaking, middle-class, Costa Rican mothers and their preschoolers. Coherence, as expressed in the constituents of high point narrative structure, was measured in reminiscing conversations about everyday events. Our purposes were twofold: 1) to see whether their co constructed narratives in talk about the past could be meaningfully examined for the constituents of high point narrative structure and 2) to explore the links between coherence in these narratives and children’s language and literacy skills. We found a full range of the constituents of high point structure in these conversations, with more advanced forms of narrative structure produced in conversations about the child’s misbehavior. Conversations about misbehavior events were most frequently in the form of classic, high point narratives. In addition, a rich set of relationships between coherence in reminiscing conversations and children’s language and literacy skills were observed. The results revealed similarities in the narrative practices found in this middle-class sample in Costa Rica to both middle-class families in other parts of the world and to conversation and cultural practices unique to Latino communities. 
Страна:Portal de Revistas UCR
Институт:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Язык:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/9868
Online-ссылка:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/actualidades/article/view/9868
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Ключевое слово:Parent-child conversations
reminiscing
autobiographical memory
narrative
culture
elaborations.
Conversaciones padre-hijo
reminiscencia
memoria autobiográfica
narrativa
cultura
elaboraciones