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Direct linkAlexandra Bates; Kathryn J. Lester; Anna Nickalls; Jenny Gibson; Elian Fink – Social Development, 2025
Across two studies we explore how individual and dyadic factors influence children's (M[subscript age] = 61 months; 52% male; 55% White British) use of mental state talk (MST) with peers during shared play. Results from actor-partner interdependence modelling (APIM; n = 190 children) indicate that children's MST use is significantly linked to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Theory of Mind, Interpersonal Communication, Peer Relationship
Sophie Carruthers; Tony Charman; Kathy Leadbitter; Ceri Ellis; Lauren Taylor; Heather Moore; Carol Taylor; Kirsty James; Matea Balabanovska; Sophie Langhorne; Catherine Aldred; Vicky Slonims; Vicki Grahame; Patricia Howlin; Helen McConachie; Jeremy Parr; Richard Emsley; Ann Le Couteur; Jonathan Green; Andrew Pickles; PACT-G Trial Group – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Soomin Kim; Deborah Norris; Jennifer Francois – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Pretend play provides enriched environments for multiple cognitive and social purposes. The quality of children's pretend play depends on the process, including children's back and forth proposals and responses about the play frames. Proposing and responding to play ideas with metacommunication use, leadership-followership interactions are…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Communication, Leadership Styles
Zuzanna Laudanska; Karolina Babis; Agata Koziol; Magdalena Szmytke; Peter B. Marschik; Dajie Zhang; Anna Malinowska-Korczak; David López Pérez; Przemyslaw Tomalski – Developmental Science, 2025
Speech development occurs in highly variable environments; however, little is known about the effect of situational context on emerging infant vocalizations. At 4 time points (4, 6, 9, and 12 months), we longitudinally measured vocalizations of 104 White infant-caregiver dyads (41 girls) during three play contexts: book-sharing, toy play, and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Interpersonal Communication, Infants, Speech Communication
Grace Buckalew; Alexus G. Ramirez; Julie M. Schneider – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined how mothers' question-asking behavior relates to their child's syntactic skills. One important aspect of maternal question-asking behavior is the use of complex questions when speaking with children. These questions can differ based on both their purpose and structure. The purpose may be to seek out information, to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Syntax, Questioning Techniques, Young Children
Morelli, Mara; Baiocco, Roberto; Cattelino, Elena; Longobardi, Emiddia – First Language, 2023
Parents play an important role in children's language development. To our knowledge, no studies have compared fathers' and mothers' use of gestural and verbal communication in dyadic versus triadic contexts. This study aimed at analyzing similarities and differences in the bimodal communication of parents when they play alone with their infant and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Infants, Play
Nergård, Beate – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
The present study examines the structure and mathematical content of children's mathematical arguments as part of communication in play-based activities. It shows how Nordin and Boistrup's (The Journal of Mathematical Behavior 51:15-27, 2018) framework for identifying and reconstructing mathematical arguments, which includes Toulmin's model of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Play, Interpersonal Communication
Aijuan Cun – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Though a limited amount of literature has examined the family literacy practices of students with refugee backgrounds in the United States, little research has focused on play and conversations of Burmese siblings with refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives from new literacy studies, Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Multilingualism, Siblings
Christina O'Keeffe; Sinéad McNally – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience social communication difficulties which can be compounded by increased social demands and expectations of the school environment. Play offers a unique context for social communication development in educational settings. This systematic review aimed to synthesize play-based interventions for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Play, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Communication
Amber M. Rountree – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Using an observational comparative case study, this study explored emergent readers' book selection behaviors within their classrooms. Emergent literacy skills are the forefront of literacy development (Clay, 1982; Ferriero & Teborsky, 1982; Teale, 1986; McNaughton, 1993; Chall, 1996; Neuman, 2000), yet reading motivation and engagement has…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Leach, Jamie; Howe, Nina; DeHart, Ganie – Early Education and Development, 2022
The purpose of the present study was to investigate children's connected communication during play with a sibling and friend from early to middle childhood. Participants included 65 4-year-old focal children at time 1 (T1) and 46 7-year-old focal children at time 2 (T2) who were videotaped at home in separate semi-structured free play sessions…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Friendship, Young Children, Play
Adriana Chee Jing Chieng; Camille J. Wynn; Tze Peng Wong; Tyson S. Barrett; Stephanie A. Borrie – Cognitive Science, 2024
Lexical alignment, a communication phenomenon where conversational partners adapt their word choices to become more similar, plays an important role in the development of language and social communication skills. While this has been studied extensively in the conversations of preschool-aged children and their parents in Western, Educated,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Children, Interpersonal Communication
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Journal of Child Language, 2023
How does parental causal input relate to children's later comprehension of causal verbs? Causal constructions in verbs differ across languages. Turkish has both lexical and morphological causatives. We asked whether (1) parental causal language input varied for different types of play (guided vs. free play), (2) early parental causal language…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension, Verbs
Download full textShirley Duong; Leanne E. Elliott; Olivia Sidoti; Heather J. Bachman; Melissa E. Libertus; Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Children's participation in cultural, everyday practices and social interactions involving math and money can contribute to the development of their knowledge and skills in these domains. Further work is needed to uncover what features of these activities, such as aspects of the conversations that may occur (e.g., number and money talk),…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Preschool Children, Play
Kimberly Maich; Tricia van Rhijn; Carmen Hall; Sheri Mallabar; Tricia Vause; Kimberly Squires; Aislynn Hatt; Mina Ahi – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
This research examines the use of teaching triads to the classroom-wide implementation of "Stay, Play & Talk" a peer-mediated social skills program for children in an inclusive Kindergarten classroom in Ontario, Canada. This research used prompting through peers to increase initiations and responses between children identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Interpersonal Competence
