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Manuel Bohn; Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira; Marta Giner Torréns; Joscha Kärtner; Shoji Itakura; Lília Cavalcante; Daniel Haun; Moritz Köster; Patricia Kanngiesser – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N = 99 families) during mealtime across…
Descriptors: Food, Parent Child Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Nonverbal Communication
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Back, Michele – Modern Language Journal, 2013
Researchers in second language socialization (SLS) often examine those interactions relating to a learner's integration within a target community. Kramsch and Whiteside (2008) noted the importance of "symbolic competence" in this integration. Symbolic competence, defined as the ability to access contextually relevant social and political…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Socialization, American Indian Languages, Cultural Awareness