Academic Paper |
|
|
|
|
| Title: | Narrative performance and parental scaffolding of shy and nonshy children |
| Author: | Kailey Pearl Reynolds |
| Institution: | University of Guelph |
| Author: | Mary Ann Evans |
| Institution: | University of Guelph |
| Linguistic Field: | Psycholinguistics; Semantics |
| Abstract: | This study examined differences in performance between 20 shy and 20 matched nonshy children on a narrative task and in the way parents scaffolded their narrative performance when reading the wordless book Frog, Where Are You, by Mercer Mayer. Consistent with previous research, results demonstrated that shy children spoke less than their nonshy peers and volunteered less story content. Parents, however, did not differ in how they scaffolded their children's speech turns, nor in the amount of semantic information they provided. Thus, these communicative differences were not accounted for by differential adult scaffolding. Implications for encouraging more verbal behavior from shy children and for the design of wordless storybooks are discussed. |
|
|
|
|
This article appears in Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 30, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
|
|
|
|
Back
Add a new paper Return to Academic Papers main page Return to Directory of Linguists main page |
|
|
About LINGUIST
|
Contact Us
|
Report Broken Link
While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents. |
|
