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    The Influence Of Positive Mother-Child Verbal Interactions On Adolescent Mothers' Literacy

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    Baron, Heather-Lee M.
    Chair
    Rickey, Melissa
    Committee
    Melvin, Mary Jo
    Reyes, Maria Elena
    Rickard, Anthony
    Keyword
    Reading instruction
    Linguistics
    Individual & family studies
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9044
    Abstract
    The purpose of this six-month qualitative microethnographic case study was to determine what influence a family literacy program based on positive mother-child verbal interactions would have on the participating adolescent mothers' literacy skills. The design of the program was founded on the Hart and Risley study (1995) and their findings regarding the five categories of significant family experiences that enhance children's vocabulary: language diversity, feedback tone, symbolic emphasis, guidance style, and responsiveness. These experiences stress the importance of affirmative interactions between children and their parents. The three adolescent mothers who participated in the study were single, white, of low socioeconomic status, and enrolled as high school seniors in the same school district in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. One participant was 11 weeks pregnant with a boy, one participant was parenting an 11-month old girl, and one participant was 18 weeks pregnant with a boy and parenting a one-year-old boy. The study found that the girls who participated in this program showed a growth of one grade level in their expository text reading levels. The results also suggest a relationship between the participants' attitude and motivation scores and their participation level in the study. Finally, the researcher believes that external/environmental factors may also have influenced the participants' participation level and the overall results.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Dissertation
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