'Mom talk:' Study finds immigrant bilingual Latina mothers have dual-language personalities

[Jim__]

I was surprised to see that this study was carried out in Florida.

From phys.org

Researchers examined the quantity of maternal speech, how mothers elicited conversation in their children, child conversational participation, and the ratio of maternal-to-child utterances. They also tested whether heritage culture would be a source of any observed differences. Credit: Florida Atlantic University
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Children who hear a language other than English at home currently make up more than 25% of the school-aged population in the United States. A large majority of those children hear Spanish because that is the native language of their parents. When their parents came to the U.S., they brought not only their language, but also their culture with them.

Cultures vary in the way parents interact with their children. Thus, children of immigrant parents may experience different cultural practices regarding parent-child conversation than children of U.S. born parents, and these cultural practices shape the skills and behaviors they bring with them when they enter school.

To gain a better understanding of second-generation immigrants in the U.S., specifically South Florida, Florida Atlantic University researchers explored how culture shapes language use with children. They compared "mom talk" during toy play with foreign-born Spanish monolingual Latina mothers, foreign-born Spanish-English bilingual Latina mothers, and U.S.-born English monolingual European American mothers and their U.S.-born, 2.5-year-old children.

For the study, researchers recorded the mothers in conversation with their children—bilingual Latina mothers were recorded twice, once interacting in Spanish and once in English—and then examined the quantity of maternal speech, how mothers elicited conversation in their children, child conversational participation, and the ratio of maternal-to-child utterances.

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. us citizenship requrements pluss if not recent immagrents , many have been here for years

https://www.newamericanscampaign.org/requirements. many of the recent immagrents who become citizrns have better understanding than some of the idiots in congress currently do.

[Jim__]

2. Your link doesn't work for me - I'm not sure if my 'fix' is to the right link.

https://www.newamericanscampaign.org/requirements/

[AllaN01Bear]

3. works fine for me.