The purpose of this study was to explore the difference mother-child verbal interaction between wordless and narrative picture book. Forty-two 4-year-old middle class children(21 girls and 21 boys) and their mothers were observed in their home.Major f...
The purpose of this study was to explore the difference mother-child verbal interaction between wordless and narrative picture book. Forty-two 4-year-old middle class children(21 girls and 21 boys) and their mothers were observed in their home.Major findings were as follows: 1) Mothers? verbal interaction strategies shows difference according to the genre of the book. Mothers used more descriptive statements, descriptive questions, inferential statements, evaluative statements and elaborative feedback when sharing the wordless book than the narrative book. 2) Children differently interact when reading picture books of different genres. Children used more descriptive statements, inferential statements and elaborative feedback. 3) Compared with the narrative picture book, mother and child engaged in more turn-taking when reading the wordless picture book. 4) While the proportion of collaborative type was higher when reading the wordless book, the proportion of passive type was higher when the narrative book.주제어(Key Words): 글없는 그림책(wordless picture book), 이야기 그림책(narrative picture book) 언어적 상호작용 전략(verbal interaction strategy), 상호작용 유형(interaction type)