Feng Lina, Tan Yuhuan
College of Teacher Education, Ningbo University, 315211 Ningbo, China.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Dec 23:1-14. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-04176-7.
Parental involvement, especially home-based involvement and home‒school communication, is an important factor affecting the development of preschool children's language abilities. Although previous studies suggest that parents are important catalysts in shaping children's language achievement, it is still unclear how types of parental involvement affect children's language abilities. This study surveys 874 preschool children in China and finds that home-based involvement boosts children's language abilities via improved approaches to learning. Surprisingly, we also find that home‒school communication negatively predicts children's language abilities via decreased approaches to learning. Moreover, school-based involvement has no significant association with children's language abilities. This study contributes new insights to the literature on children's language abilities by uncovering the various impacts of the subtypes of parental involvement and providing a process explanation accordingly.
家长参与，尤其是基于家庭的参与以及家校沟通，是影响学龄前儿童语言能力发展的重要因素。尽管先前的研究表明家长是塑造孩子语言成就的重要催化剂，但家长参与的类型如何影响孩子的语言能力仍不清楚。本研究对中国874名学龄前儿童进行了调查，发现基于家庭的参与通过改进学习方法提高了孩子的语言能力。令人惊讶的是，我们还发现家校沟通通过减少学习方法对孩子的语言能力产生负面预测作用。此外，基于学校的参与与孩子的语言能力没有显著关联。本研究通过揭示家长参与亚型的各种影响并相应地提供过程解释，为有关儿童语言能力的文献贡献了新的见解。
