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Pellegrini, A. D.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1995
Finds that children's word recall was best predicted by responsive maternal strategies, such as encouraging children to talk about the text, and children's modeling maternal strategies; also, word recall and vocabulary was significantly correlated with children's language generated around traditional format texts (trade books), not familiar format…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children