Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children

Zhengjun Yue; Jon Barker; Heidi Christensen; Cristina McKean; Elaine Ashton; Yvonne Wren; Swapnil Gadgil; Rebecca Bright

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1297

Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children

Zhengjun Yue, Jon Barker, Heidi Christensen, Cristina McKean, Elaine Ashton, Yvonne Wren, Swapnil Gadgil, Rebecca Bright

Bristol Dental School

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Abstract

A novel crowdsourcing project to gather children's storytelling based language samples using a mobile app was undertaken across the United Kingdom. Parents' scaffolding of children's narratives was observed in many of the samples. This study was designed to examine the relationship of scaffolding and young children's narrative language ability in a story retell context which is analysed at the macro-structural (total macro-structure score), the micro-structural (mean length of utterances in morphemes) and verbal productivity (total number of utterances) levels. Young children with and without scaffolding were statistically compared. The interaction between the level of scaffolding support, the grammar complexity and the narrative structure was explored. A bidirectional relationship was observed between scaffolding and young children's narrative language ability. Young children with better performance were observed to receive less scaffolding from parents. Scaffolding was shown to support early narrative development of young children and was more able to benefit those with low-level grammatical complexity skills. It is crucial to encourage parental scaffolding to be well-attuned to the child's narrative ability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	236-240
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781713836902
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1297
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021 - Brno, Czech Republic Duration: 30 Aug 2021 → 3 Sept 2021

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X
ISSN (Electronic)	1990-9772

Conference

Conference	22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Brno
Period	30/08/21 → 3/09/21

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Funding Information:
This work is supported under the EU’s H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme TAPAS (Training Network for PAthological Speech processing; Grant No. 766287). The Language Explorer project is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Innovation for Invention. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 ISCA.

Keywords

Children narrative language ability
Mean length of utterance in morphemes
Narrative macro-structure
Scaffolding
Storytelling

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Yue, Z., Barker, J., Christensen, H., McKean, C., Ashton, E., Wren, Y., Gadgil, S., & Bright, R. (2021). Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children. In 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021 (pp. 236-240). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH; Vol. 1). International Speech Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1297

Yue, Zhengjun ; Barker, Jon ; Christensen, Heidi et al. / Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children. 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021. International Speech Communication Association, 2021. pp. 236-240 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children. / Yue, Zhengjun; Barker, Jon; Christensen, Heidi et al.
22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021. International Speech Communication Association, 2021. p. 236-240 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH; Vol. 1).

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