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EJ380597 PS516018

Title: Mother-Child Interactions, Attachment, and Emergent Literacy: A Cross-sectional Study.
Author(s): Bus, Adriana G.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
Source: Child Development, v59 n5 p1262-72 Oct 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1989

Studied interactions which are related to written language, attachment security, and emergent literacy between 45 mothers and their children, aged one-and-a-half to five-and-a-half years. Results suggest that mothers give reading instruction to small children by naming letters and well-known words which contain those letters. Mother-child interaction is related to attachment security and emergent literacy. (RJC)

Descriptors: *Attachment Behavior; Cross Sectional Studies; *Mothers; *Parent Child Relationship; *Prereading Experience; Reading Instruction; *Young Children
Identifiers: Ainsworth Strange Situation Procedure; *Emergent Literacy