@article{97578554ea7748cbaf337af54a9ba6dd,
title = "Guatemalan Mayan book-sharing styles and their relation to parents{\textquoteright} schooling and children's narrative contributions",
abstract = "Little is known about parents{\textquoteright} book-sharing styles in indigenous communities undergoing social and cultural change. This study investigated Guatemalan Mayan parents{\textquoteright} book-sharing styles and their relation to parents{\textquoteright} schooling experience and children's narrative contributions. Thirty parents and their first-grade children (ages 7–9) were audiotaped sharing a worded picture book. Most parents either adopted the role of the sole narrator (40%) or shared the role of the narrator with their children (40%); other parents focused on teaching literacy skills (20%). Guatemalan Mayan parents with greater schooling experience were more likely to adopt the sole-narrator style than other styles. Children whose parents adopted the sole-narrator style contributed significantly less to the story (both in amount and type of new information provided) than children whose parents adopted other styles. Implications for family literacy programs working with Guatemalan Mayan and other indigenous communities are discussed.",
keywords = "Book-reading, First-grade children, Indigenous, Latin American, Narratives, Parents",
author = "Nieto, {Ana Mar{\'i}a} and Diana Leyva and Hirokazu Yoshikawa",
note = "Funding Information: This research was part of Ana Mar{\'i}a Nieto{\textquoteright}s doctoral dissertation, supported by the Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant for Global Early Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development , the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University , and the Summer Independent Internship Travel Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University . We are grateful for the help of the participating families, teachers, and volunteers in the four communities and the Save the Children team in Guatemala, particularly, Katy Anis. We are thankful to Paola Uccelli and Karen Mapp for their valuable feedback. A. Nieto is now the Director of Early Childhood at the Colombian Ministry of Education. H. Yoshikawa{\textquoteright}s effort was partially supported by funding from the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute to the Global TIES for Children Center at New York University. Funding Information: This research was part of Ana Mar{\'i}a Nieto's doctoral dissertation, supported by the Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant for Global Early Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development, the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University, and the Summer Independent Internship Travel Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. We are grateful for the help of the participating families, teachers, and volunteers in the four communities and the Save the Children team in Guatemala, particularly, Katy Anis. We are thankful to Paola Uccelli and Karen Mapp for their valuable feedback. A. Nieto is now the Director of Early Childhood at the Colombian Ministry of Education. H. Yoshikawa's effort was partially supported by funding from the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute to the Global TIES for Children Center at New York University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "47",
pages = "405--417",
journal = "Early Childhood Research Quarterly",
issn = "0885-2006",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",
}