University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education.
J Child Lang. 2021 Mar;48(2):399-412. doi: 10.1017/S0305000920000252. Epub 2020 Jun 5.
Behavioral and neural evidence indicates that young children who engage in more conversations with their parents have better later language skills such as vocabulary and academic language abilities. Previous studies find that the extent to which parents engage in conversational turn-taking with children varies considerably. How, then, can we promote extended conversations between parents and their children? Instead of asking parents to engage in longer turn-taking episodes, we provided parents with information on conversational content that we hypothesized would lead to increased episodes of longer, more sustained conversational turn-taking. Specifically, we found that boosting the frequency of parent-child talk about abstract, non-present concepts - decontextualized language - led to an increase in dyadic conversational turn-taking during home mealtimes several weeks later.
行为和神经证据表明，与父母进行更多对话的幼儿日后的语言技能（如词汇量和学术语言能力）会更好。先前的研究发现，父母与孩子进行对话轮替的程度差异很大。那么，我们如何促进父母和孩子之间的更多对话呢？我们没有要求父母进行更长时间的对话轮替，而是向他们提供了关于对话内容的信息，我们假设这将导致更长时间、更持续的对话轮替次数增加。具体来说，我们发现，增加亲子间关于抽象、非当前概念的谈话频率——去语境化语言——会导致几周后家庭用餐时的双人对话轮替次数增加。
