The purpose of this study is to analyze how different Mother, infant communication strategies is depending on a type of baby books mothers read for their children.
The specific questions of this study are as follows.
1. Is there any difference on moth...
The purpose of this study is to analyze how different Mother, infant communication strategies is depending on a type of baby books mothers read for their children.
The specific questions of this study are as follows.
1. Is there any difference on mothers' communication strategies according to a kind of baby books they read?
1-1. How do mothers' communicate with their children while reading a peek-a-boo book?
1-2. How do mothers' communicate with their children while reading a naming book?
1-3. What differences do mothers' have on communicating with their children between reading a peek-a-boo book and a naming book?
2. Is there any difference on infants' communication strategies according to a kind of baby books they are read?
2-1. How do infants' communicate with their mothers while listening to a peek-a-boo book?
2-2. How do infants' communicate with their mothers while listening to a naming book?
2-3. What differences do infants' have on communicating with their parents between listening to a peek-a-boo book and a naming book?
The subjects of this study were 30 mothers who live in Metropolitan area including Seoul and are middle class and their 12 through 18 month-old children.
We had their mothers read two different kinds of books for their children, while videotaping how they interact each other.
To analyze mothers' lingual communication strategies while reading a book, the analytic categories used in this study is the one that Choi Eun Ju(2002) used after revising and complementing the method of Senechal, Cornell and Broad(1995).
In analyzing mother's non lingual communication strategies, the other analytic categories was used, which is also utilized in Kim Min Hwa(2002)'s study, after revising and complementing with a preliminary investigation.
In addition, to find out infants' lingual and non-lingual communication strategies, I used the analytic categories properly revised and complemented, which is also adapted and complemented by Chi Eun Ju(2002) from Whitehust and Valdez-Menchaca(1992)'s one in her study.
The frequency and percentage of both mothers' and infants' lingual and non-lingual communication strategies were measured and then tested by T-test of SPSS 12.0 program.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, there were statistically significant differences in mothers' lingual and non-lingual communication strategies
Especially, there were differences in specific several categories such as 'naming statement', 'the relation of a previous experience', 'the expression of feeling' and description'.
Second, when reading a peek-a-boo book, mothers used the strategy of ‘leading point' most often. ‘Naming statement' is second, followed by ‘calling attention with rhythm?’, ‘who question'. On the other hand, when reading a naming book, following ’leading point' on the list are ‘naming statement', 'description'.
Third, there's no statistic difference in infants' lingual and non-lingual communication strategies regardless of listening to a peek-a-boo book or a naming book. Yet, it was in sub-categories that we could observe the valid differences like ‘operation’, ’laughing or smiling', 'refusing or rejecting', 'pointing by fingers' and 'behaving regardless of a book'.
Forth, when infants were reading a peek-a-boo book, they used a strategy of 'looking at the book without any word' most often. 'Laughing or smiling' was second, followed by 'turning over the pages or trying it', ‘operation'. On the other hand, when infants were reading a naming book, following 'looking at the book without any word' on the list of sub-categories were 'turning over the pages or trying it', 'pointing by fingers', 'behaving regardless of the book', and 'refusing or rejecting'.