Böcker av Galiya A. Tabulda

Children's emergent literacy skills have been found to be predictive of concurrent andsubsequent academic achievement. Proponents of a nurture-driven approach to learning posit thatchildren's linguistic competencies are associated with the quantity and richness of language inputthat they receive from primary caregivers. The primary goal of this study was to investigate thelongitudinal relations between the properties of parent language addressed to children when theywere 3 years old and children's emergent literacy skills (vocabulary, grammar, and phonologicalawareness) a year later. This study also examined longitudinal continuity of children's emergentliteracy skills and explored how two different types of parent language input (contextualized anddecontextualized) predict children's outcomes.Participants included 69 parent-child dyads from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Participants were audio-recorded at home during completion of two semi- structured tasks: conversation about past events and free play. Parent and child verbal communication was transcribed, coded and analyzed. About a year later, participating children were assessed using a battery of standardized tests measuring vocabulary, grammatical skill, and phonological awareness skills.