Bornstein Marc H, Putnick Diane L, Bohr Yvonne, Abdelmaseh Marette, Lee Carol Yookyung, Esposito Gianluca
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.
Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK.
Early Child Res Q. 2020;51:483-489. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.01.002. Epub 2020 Feb 19.
Supporting language skills in the early years is important because children who begin school with stronger language skills continue to perform well later in their language as well as academic and socioemotional growth. This three-wave longitudinal study of 50 mother-infant dyads reveals that maternal sensitivity and maternal language at 5 months each uniquely predicts child language at 49 months, controlling for age, education, and maternal verbal IQ as well as maternal supportive presence at 49 months. These findings reinforce the importance of maternal sensitivity and maternal language in infancy for child language development and specify that early maternal sensitivity and language, apart from maternal age, education, and IQ as well as later sensitivity, contribute to child language development.
在儿童早期培养语言技能非常重要，因为入学时语言技能较强的孩子在日后的语言发展以及学业和社会情感成长方面会持续表现出色。这项对50对母婴进行的三波纵向研究表明，在控制了年龄、教育程度、母亲的言语智商以及孩子49个月时母亲的支持陪伴等因素后，孩子5个月时母亲的敏感性和语言能力各自都能独特地预测孩子49个月时的语言能力。这些发现强化了婴儿期母亲的敏感性和语言能力对儿童语言发展的重要性，并明确指出，除了母亲的年龄、教育程度和智商以及后期的敏感性之外，早期母亲的敏感性和语言能力也有助于儿童语言发展。
