Supermarket Speak: Increasing Talk among Low-Socioeconomic Status Families

Autor/inn/en	Ridge, Katherine E.; Weisberg, Deena Skolnick; Ilgaz, Hande; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn A.; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick
Titel	Supermarket Speak: Increasing Talk among Low-Socioeconomic Status Families
Quelle	In: Mind, Brain, and Education, 9 (2015) 3, S.127-135 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1751-2271
DOI	10.1111/mbe.12081
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Intervention; Parent Child Relationship; Food; Retailing; Children; Dialogs (Language); Signs; Observation; Program Effectiveness; Socioeconomic Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Lebensmittel; Warenwirtschaft; Child; Kind; Kinder; Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Zeichensystem; Beobachtung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	Children from low-socioeconomic status (SES) families often fall behind their middle-class peers in early language development. But interventions designed to support their language skills are often costly and labor-intensive. This study implements an inexpensive and subtle language intervention aimed at sparking parent-child interaction in a place that families naturally visit: the supermarket. We placed signs encouraging adult-child dialogue in supermarkets serving low- and mid-SES neighborhoods. Using an unobtrusive observational methodology, we tested how these signs affected adult-child interactions. When signs were present in supermarkets serving low-SES neighborhoods, both the amount and the quality of talk between adults and children increased significantly, compared to when the signs were not present; signs had little effect in middle-SES supermarkets. This study demonstrates that implementing simple, cost-effective interventions in everyday environments may bolster children's language development and school readiness skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01