Personal Narrative as a 'Breeding Ground' for Higher-Order Thinking Talk in Early Parent-Child Interactions

Autor/inn/en	Frausel, Rebecca R.; Richland, Lindsey E.; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Titel	Personal Narrative as a 'Breeding Ground' for Higher-Order Thinking Talk in Early Parent-Child Interactions
Quelle	(2021), (65 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Frausel, Rebecca R.) ORCID (Richland, Lindsey E.) ORCID (Goldin-Meadow, Susan) Weitere Informationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.1037/dev0001166
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Thinking Skills; Family Environment; Personal Narratives; Inferences; Skill Development; Child Development; Imagination; Speech Communication; Discourse Analysis; Age Differences; Comparative Analysis; Socialization; Language Acquisition; Longitudinal Studies; Video Technology; Infants; Preschool Children; Metacognition; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Denkfähigkeit; Familienmilieu; Erlebniserzählung; Inference; Inferenz; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Diskursanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition
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[subscript 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 HOTT. We found that parents at all visits and children after 38 months used more HOTT in narrative than non-narrative, and more HOTT than expected by chance. At 38- and 50-months, we examined HOTT in a related but distinct form of decontextualized talk--pretend, or talk during imaginary episodes of interaction--as a control to test whether other forms of decontextualized talk also relate to HOTT. While pretend contained more HOTT than other (non-narrative/non-pretend) talk, it generally contained less HOTT than narrative. Additionally, unlike HOTT during narrative, the amount of HOTT during pretend did not exceed the amount expected by chance, suggesting narrative serves as a particularly rich 'breeding ground' for HOTT in parent-child interactions. These findings provide insight into the nature of narrative discourse, and suggest narrative potentially may be used as a lever to increase children's higher-order thinking. [The paper was published in "Developmental Psychology" v57 n4 p519-534 2021 (EJ1291864).] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01