Cultural Variations in the Construction of Personal Narratives: Central American and European American Mothers' Elicitation Styles

By G. Melzi. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics

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The Influence of Demographic Risk Factors on Children's Behavioral Regulation in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten (2011, background): “Furthermore, studies of Mexican American families suggested that these mothers were less likely to correct their children’s narratives than Euro-American mothers (Eisenberg, 1985; Melzi, 2000).”
Elaborating on elaborations: role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development. (2006, background): “A few researchers have begun to examine these questions (e.g., Melzi, 2000), although not all focus on maternal elaboration (Miller et al., 1997; Minami, 1997).”
The Development of Children's Oral Narratives Across Contexts (2010, background): “In this way, the input and contributions of the conversational partner act as a scaffold for the child’s narrative production by guiding the selection of the content and by providing the necessary organization to construct a tellable story that will be understood and valued by the larger community (”
Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing Increases Low-Income Children's Narrative Skills Relative to Dialogic Reading (2010, background): “Hispanic parents support their children’s storytelling with comments that elicit engagement in talk about the past without necessarily providing cues that shape the overall structure of the narrative (Eisenberg, 1985; Melzi, 2000; see also Sparks, 2008).”
Telling Stories and Making Books: Evidence for an Intervention to Help Parents in Migrant Head Start Families Support Their Children's Language and Literacy (2010, background): “Children’s language, literacy, and early learning are supported when parents talk to them, have conversations with them, tell stories with them, and read books to them (Arnold & Whitehurst, 1994; Baumwell, Tamis-LeMonda, & Bornstein, 1997; Caravolas & Bruck, 1993; Carpenter, Nagell, & Tomasello, 199”
Elaboration and Autonomy Support in Low-Income Mothers' Reminiscing: Links to Children's Autobiographical Narratives (2009, background): “Melzi ( 2000 ) compared the autobiographical narrative styles of working-class European American and Latino families.”
Variations in maternal narrative styles during book reading interactions (2005, background): “Latinos with European Americans in other conversational narratives contexts (e.g., Eisenberg, 1985; Melzi, 2000), has shown that Latino mothers adopt the role of a participatory audience whereas European American mothers adopt the role of co-narrator.”
Researching Effective Pedagogy in the Early Years (2002, background): “Similarly, in her study of the development of narrative between mothers and their young children within different language communities in the USA, Melzi (2000) found that Spanish speaking mothers were active listeners and gave general conversational guidelines to their children, whilst English speak”
Mother-child conversations at 36 months and at pre-kindergarten: Relations to children's school readiness (2012, background): “In extending such findings to assist with the design of programmes, it is important to attend to the diverse cultural styles of narration that families from different ethnic backgrounds may exhibit (e.g. Caspe and Melzi, 2008; Champion, 2003; Champion et al., 1999; McCabe, 1999; Melzi, 2000; Melzi a”