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Narrative Styles of Japanese Mothers and Their Children.
Minami, Masahiko – 1996
"Scaffolding" refers to the temporary support that parents and others give a child to perform a task. In narrative contexts, children's speech is guided and scaffolded by mothers who initiate and elicit children's contributions about past experiences. Unfortunately, data on this phenomenon from languages other than English are very…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Child Language