Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families

Parent-child book sharing and reminiscing conversations are two important home activities that promote young children's early language literacy skills. Yet extant research has focused on middle-class Anglo-European families, with relatively little attention given to styles of in other cultural contexts. To further explore practices development Latin America, we examined the relationships between caregiver's conversational style while emerging The sample included 108 low-income, Costa Rican caregivers their preschool-aged children. Results from cluster analyses identified types caregiver styles, story builder teller; high elicitor low elicitor. These uncovered different links child participation conversation Findings discussed light furthering culturally appropriate research, practices, policy support childhood family for children Rica.