The social correlates of co-ordinated attention to adult and objects in mother-infant interaction  

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Munson, Leslie J. ; Yoder, Paul Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 44 (1995), page 219-230.
Fulltext: First Language 1995 15. 219-230.pdf (615.18KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Co-ordinated attention to objects and adults is positively associated with later language development in children with and without disabilities. This relationship may occur because of social correlates of co-ordinated attention, which may in turn facilitate language development. This study investigated two potential social correlates of co-ordinated attention. Both of them have been suggested to have a role in facilitating later language development. The purpose of this study was to test two hypotheses. First, we expected a positive relationship between infants' use of coordinated attention and mothers' attributions of communication to their infants' behaviour. Second, we expected mothers to respond to a cluster of behaviours they identified as communicative more often when the cluster contained at least one instance of co-ordinated attention than when the cluster showed no co-ordinated attention. Mothers and coders analysed the free play interactions of 16 mother-infant pairs. First, mothers indicated their infants' communicative behaviours. Then, coders identified: (a) instances of co-ordinated attention to an object and person, (b) types of infant behaviours observed in mother-identified infant communication and (c) responses to infant behaviours that mothers identified as communicative. The results supported both hypotheses. Implications of the results are discussed.

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