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The relation of maternal literate mediation strategies and socioemotional comments to Korean children's Hangul reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

JEUNG-RYEUL CHO ,
CATHERINE McBRIDE  and
DAN LIN
JEUNG-RYEUL CHO*
Affiliation:
Kyungnam University
CATHERINE McBRIDE*
Affiliation:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
DAN LIN
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Institute of Education
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Jeung-Ryeul Cho, Department of Psychology, Kyungnam University, Changwon 631-701, South Korea, jrcho@kyungnam.ac.kr
Catherine McBride, Department of Psychology, Room 359, Sino Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong. E-mail: cmcbride@psy.cuhk.edu.hk
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Abstract

The present study examined Korean mothers’ literate mediation strategies and socioemotional supports for 84 4- and 5-year-old children as they wrote unfamiliar words, and the relation of these strategies and comments to Korean children's Hangul reading. The mother–child writing interactions were videotaped. Eight strategies of maternal literate mediation were subsequently identified and five socioemotional comments were coded. Mothers of 5-year-olds used a coda-focused (i.e., emphasis on the final consonant of a syllable) strategy more often than those of 4-year-olds. The maternal coda focus was uniquely associated with children's word reading over and above mothers’ education and children's age, grade, vocabulary, and writing skill. Maternal literate mediation focused on the consonant–vowel (CV) subsyllabic unit, which explained children's reading of CV Gulja (Korean written syllable). These results suggest that efficient maternal literate mediation strategies focus on salient psycholinguistic grain size of Korean language such as CV (body) and coda subsyllabic units. In addition, the two socioemotional categories of process and critical comments were uniquely associated with children's reading. Findings underscore the importance of Korean language and culture in mothers’ early scaffolding to facilitate children's literacy acquisition.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 155 - 179
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