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Engagement in joint episodes: developmental trajectory and the relationships with language development. |
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Abstract:
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Background and aims:
This study investigated young children’s ability to engage in joint episodes. Joint episodes were defined as those in which both a child and a communicative partner interact to share activities under the same theme, using joint attention, communicative language and gestures. This paper addresses the following questions: What kind of developmental trajectory is found in children’s engagement in joint episodes? and how the role of the communicative partner changes as a function of a child’s communicative competence?
Method:
The data were drawn from a longitudinal observation of 10 Japanese mother and child dyads (7 boys and 3 girls: mean age 13.6 months at the beginning of the study) interacting with toys and books for 20 minutes over a 12 month period. All interactions were videotaped and coded based on the four categories (adapted from Adamson & Bakeman, 1984) of “joint episode”, “passive joint” in which the mother intended to share an activity with her child, but child was not aware of it; “object” where the child played with an object on his/her own; and “unengaged”. The reliability index Kappa was .82 on average.
Results:
The duration spent in joint episodes was calculated relative to the total duration of the observation. The growth curve modeling for the increase of joint episodes suggested that there was a linear developmental trend for the increase in the time spent in joint episodes. The investigation of the initiation of joint episodes of both communicative parties suggested that the adults supported a child’s activities to form joint episodes until their child’s linguistic competence increased. Despite individual differences in the age at which this take-over phenomenon occurred, all children began to take an initiative during the latter half of the second year. There were high and significant correlations between the age at which a child began to take an initiative to form joint engagements and their ability to express their communicative intentions, particularly with the emergence of syntactical aspect of language development (rs=.91, p<.0001).
Conclusions:
The results suggest that children’s ability to form joint engagements reflect their communicative competence. |
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Name: XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
URL: http://www.isisweb.org
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MLA Citation:
| Tsuji, Hiromi. "Engagement in joint episodes: developmental trajectory and the relationships with language development." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 19, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93647_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Tsuji, H. , 2006-06-19 "Engagement in joint episodes: developmental trajectory and the relationships with language development." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93647_index.html |
Publication Type: Individual Poster
Abstract: Background and aims:
This study investigated young children’s ability to engage in joint episodes. Joint episodes were defined as those in which both a child and a communicative partner interact to share activities under the same theme, using joint attention, communicative language and gestures. This paper addresses the following questions: What kind of developmental trajectory is found in children’s engagement in joint episodes? and how the role of the communicative partner changes as a function of a child’s communicative competence?
Method:
The data were drawn from a longitudinal observation of 10 Japanese mother and child dyads (7 boys and 3 girls: mean age 13.6 months at the beginning of the study) interacting with toys and books for 20 minutes over a 12 month period. All interactions were videotaped and coded based on the four categories (adapted from Adamson & Bakeman, 1984) of “joint episode”, “passive joint” in which the mother intended to share an activity with her child, but child was not aware of it; “object” where the child played with an object on his/her own; and “unengaged”. The reliability index Kappa was .82 on average.
Results:
The duration spent in joint episodes was calculated relative to the total duration of the observation. The growth curve modeling for the increase of joint episodes suggested that there was a linear developmental trend for the increase in the time spent in joint episodes. The investigation of the initiation of joint episodes of both communicative parties suggested that the adults supported a child’s activities to form joint episodes until their child’s linguistic competence increased. Despite individual differences in the age at which this take-over phenomenon occurred, all children began to take an initiative during the latter half of the second year. There were high and significant correlations between the age at which a child began to take an initiative to form joint engagements and their ability to express their communicative intentions, particularly with the emergence of syntactical aspect of language development (rs=.91, p<.0001).
Conclusions:
The results suggest that children’s ability to form joint engagements reflect their communicative competence. |
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