Personal narrative as a 'breeding ground' for higher-order thinking talk in early parent-child interactions.

ABSTRACT: Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experiences about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations-i.e., to engage in higher-order thinking talk (HOTT). Here we ask whether narratives in early parent-child interactions include proportionally more HOTT than other forms of everyday home language. Sixty-four children (31 girls; 36 White, 14 Black, 8 Hispanic, 6 mixed/other race) and their primary caregiver(s) (M _income = $61,000) were recorded in 90-minute spontaneous home interactions every 4 months from 14-58 months. Speech was transcribed and coded for narrative and

SUBMITTER: Frausel RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412171 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature