'Talking like a book?' Socioeconomic differences of maternal conversational styles in co-constructing personal narratives with young Taiwanese children

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1361-1377

  Lai, Wen Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Family socioeconomic status; Mandarin Chinese speaking children; Maternal conversational style; Narrative conversation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649410119     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430903083433     Document Type: Article

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