Multimodale Kommunikation in frühen Buchlesesituationen und ihr Zusammenhang mit dem späteren Wortschatz

Abstract

Early parent-child interactions are characterized by repeated communicative situations such as joint book reading. In these interactions, both interaction partners communicate using verbal, but also nonverbal means such as gestures. Nonverbal means enable children from early on to take an active part in communication. In our study, we observed 17 mothers and their 14-month-old children in naturalistic joint book reading situations and analyzed their multimodal communication and its relation to the children?s later language skills. The number of gesture-and-speech combinations of both, children and their mothers, explained 55?% of the variance of the children?s productive vocabulary at 18 months.

The Use of Interaction Strategies in Mother-Child Joint Book Reading for Ages 3 to 6 in China

“…Multimodal communication between mother and child in a joint book reading situation explains 55% of the variation in the children's later vocabulary (Grimminger & Rohlfing, 2019). In a persistence study of 29 18-month-old infants, Lucca et al (2019) found that parental persistent verbal encouragement during joint book reading also significantly predicted the child's future persistence qualities.…”

“…Mother-child joint book reading is the process of a mother and child reading a book together. Many studies have shown that parent-child joint book reading is a very important parent-child interaction activity that not only promotes the reading development of preschool children as well as influences future academic achievement, but also promotes the development of the child's future personality qualities (Bus et al, 1995;Grimminger & Rohlfing, 2019;Lucca et al, 2019;Raikes et al, 2006). Bus et al (1995) Studies have shown that joint book reading is associated with children's language skills, new literacy rates, and reading achievement, and further research has shown that mother-child reading significantly predicts children's later language and cognitive abilities (Raikes et al, 2006).…”