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Seminar 2: Article ReviewSocial and linguistic input in low-income African American mother-child dyads from 1 month through

2 years: Relations to vocabulary developmentand

hild-directed speech: relation to socioeconomic status! "nowledge of child developmental childvocabulary s"ill#

Presented by,Bawani Sandrasegaran (TGB130011)

Grace Saran Galawat (TGB130010)

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$ac"ground

%ain focus: &ield of child linguistics speci'cally invocabulary development#

Aim:i( to review the eloquent of linguistic and

social inputin developing the childrensvocabulary#

ii( to regulate the reason of dierentbackground of socioeconomic (SES) ofAmerican parents communicate dierentlywith their children#

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)roblem Statement

*he frst journal statedthat the researchers hadfound out theinsuciency of study

on the signicance oflinguistic and socialinput in child languagedevelopment amongethnic minority familiesandcommunities withdi+erent socioeconomiclevels#

Second journal wasabout the crucial,uestion concern onthe reason of more wellliterate and"nowledgeable parentstal" moreand apply amore comple and

assorted language withtheir children than lessliterate and"nowledgeable parents#

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*heoretical &ramewor"

rticle !"

.# %others who respond

verbally to their infants/ Attentional

0Shimpi unttenlocher! 2334( focusas

well as their vocali5ations 0Rollins

Snow! 1667( have infants who aremore

productive with language#

ii# %others who more often responded

contingently to their infants/

vocali5ations had children who were

more developmentally advanced than

infants whose mothers/ responseswere

not contingent 0Rollins Snow! 1667(

rticle #"

.( igh 8 S9S mothers use longerutterances more di+erentwords when they tal" to theirchildren than low - S9S

mothers and! in turn! theirchildren have largervocabularies# 0o+! 233(

..( ;ow-S9S mothers are found to

tal" less use less variedvocabulary during interactionwith their children than high-S9S mothers# 0art Risley!166

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Research %ethodologyrticle !

$articipants 3 mother-child dyads

;ow income parents

=rug-free members> recruited viascreening interviews

Average age 0time of giving birth(: 2< yrs6 months

S9S : both the time when mother waspregnant the child was 13 yrs old 0 2&actor .nde of Social )osition>ollingshead Redlich! 16

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Research Euestions

rticle !"%hreeresearch questions&

!& %he stability ofmaternal social and

linguistic input overtime is considered&

#& %he signicance oflinguistic input onchild vocabularydevelopment isinvestigated&

'& %he relations of socialinput ith childvocabulary use arelooked upon&

rticle #"our research questions&

!&%he measurement of variables inboth the quantity and quality of thechild*directed speech that parentsoer to the toddlers&

#&%he measurement on child*directedspeech ith toddlers ere describeto childrens preschool vocabularyskill that refers to ability for thetoddler in controlling theirvocabulary skill&

'&%he relationship beteen SES indisclose to child*directed speech

and the researcher*directed speech&

+&%he knoledge of the parenttoards child development andarbitrate of parental verbal facilityin relation beteen SES and child*directed speech&

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&indings

rticle !"

- *he diversity of themother/s

vocabulary in earlydevelopment canlead to thediversity of the

child/s vocabularyin toddlerhood#

rticle #"

- *he aBliation of child-directed speech andchild vocabulary s"illand again discussesconcerned on the mainfocused ,uestion of whyparents from di+erent

S9S bac"groundscommunicatedi+erently with theirchildren#

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riti,ues

Fea"nesses: both Gournals is the ambiguity ingiving information#

rticle !"=iBculty in reading the numbers interms of age#

=iBcult to understand the phrase)earson bivariate correlations whichwas said to be the data analysismethod of this study#Hne sentence which is I%any of thewomen in the sample group wereunmarried but most of the women

were living with the infant/s father atthe time they gave birth isambiguous#.t is not very reader-friendly whenthe readers are directed to refer to$ernstein and ans 0166?( concerningthe recruitment of participants and the

determination of social-environmentris" factors#

rticle #"*he crucial part of its mainconcern has been repeated as it

was well presented in its typicalacademic abstract#*he videotaped sessions weretruncated to the shortest taping#%ore on descriptive rather thaninformative analysis#

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ReJections

Fe feel inspired by both study as ithas bro"en down the strong beliefthat child learning should beresponsive and child-led#

;earning the di+erences in S9S givesimpact to the developmental of achild-directed speech#

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References

1# %9R9=.* ;# RHF9 02337(# Child-directed speech:relatin t sciecn!ic stat"s, #nwledge $ child

de%elp!ent and child %cab"lary s#ill&Kournal of hild;anguage!

Gournals#cambridge#orgLabstractMS33