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Evaluative Language Used by Mandarin-Chinese-Speaking Dyads in Personal Narratives: Age and Socioeconomic Differences
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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
"Talking like a Book?" Socioeconomic Differences of Maternal Conversational Styles in Co-Constructing Personal Narratives with Young Taiwanese Children
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Lai, Wen-Feng – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The study investigated how Taiwanese mothers with different socioeconomic statuses (SES) co-constructed personal experience with their children in narrative conversations. Forty dyads recruited in Taiwan participated in the study, half from middle-class families and half from the working-class. Narrative conversations in Mandarin Chinese were…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Speech Communication, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Making the Invisible More Visible: Home Literacy Practices of Middle-Class and Working-Class Families.
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McCarthey, Sarah J. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Interviews with eight families showed that literacy materials and goals for using literacy differed between middle and working class families, with middle class families drawing on more resources to learn about the child's classroom. However, all families expressed value for literacy activities, challenging the myth that working-class families do…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Learning Activities, Learning Experience
The Recruitment of Elementary School Mistresses and Their Social Class in the Nineteenth Century: With Special Reference to Whitelands College London, 1841-1870.
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Williams, Susanne R. – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Examines background factors of nineteenth-century education, especially the development of systematic training for elementary school mistresses, and social class. Concentrates on Whitelands College's recruitment of future teachers with reference to their social class. (NH)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational History, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries