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Peterson, Carole; Jesso, Beulah; McCabe, Allyssa – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Investigated whether low-income mothers learned to interact with their preschoolers in ways that fostered narrative skills. Mothers of intervention children were encouraged to elicit questions, encourage longer narratives, and participate in narrative conversation. Assessment of children's pre- and post-intervention narrative and vocabulary skills…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth