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Reasoning as a Pedagogical Strategy in Infant-Addressed Talk in Early Childhood Education Centres: Relationships with Educators' Qualifications and Communicative Function
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Hu, Jiangbo; Degotardi, Sheila; Torr, Jane; Han, Feifei – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examines the frequency of reasoning talk used by 56 educators during their naturally occurring play interactions with infants in their early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers. Using Hasan's semantic framework, reasons were coded as social (based on social rules) or logical (based on rules of nature). The…
Descriptors: Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Care Centers
Use of Mental State Language during Educator-Child and Mother-Child Conversations about the Past and Future
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Andrews, Rebecca; Van Bergen, Penny; Wyver, Shirley – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research findings: No research to date has compared mental state language (MSL) in conversations between children and different adult talk partners, such as mothers and educators. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of MSL (verbalization of mental states such as remembering, knowing and thinking) by children, educators, and mothers…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Thinking Skills
Reliability of the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles Scale across Gender and Parent Status Groups
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Dunstan, Debra A.; Anderson, Donnah L.; Marks, Anthony D. G. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Emotional and social competence are critical to a child's current and future well-being. A. D. Paterson et al. (2012) studied a sample of mothers and proposed that an adult's approach to the socialization of a child's emotions can be summarized in his or her parenting style as measured by the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Socialization, Emotional Development, Gender Differences
Mother-Child Referencing of Environmental Print and Its Relationship with Emergent Literacy Skills
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Neumann, Michelle M.; Hood, Michelle; Ford, Ruth – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: Environmental print provides children with their earliest print experiences. This observational study investigated the frequency of mother-child environmental print referencing and its relationship with emergent literacy. A total of 35 mothers and their children (ages 3-4 years) were videotaped interacting in an environmental…
Descriptors: Observation, Mothers, Printed Materials, Emergent Literacy