Ecological Details on Environment as the Foundation for Developing Language and Communication Skills

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23601020
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Children studies (Studies of environment on children)
• Research Institution: Sapporo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Kentaro 札幌学院大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10308223)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ISHIGURO Hiroaki 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (00232281) ; ASAO Takeshi 奈良女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (70184132) ; SASAKI Masato 東京大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (10134248)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO Yuki 玉川大学, 芸術学部, 准教授 (90568156) ; MARUYAMA Shin 駒沢女子大学, 人文学部, 講師 (60530219)
• Research Collaborator: AOYAMA Kei ; YAMAZAKI Hiroe ; HASUMI Eri
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 言語獲得 / 発達環境 / 母子コミュニケーション / 生態学的記述

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With the objective of discussing how language ability emerges in infants through everyday interaction with parents playing with toys together, we analyzed video recordings of toy-based interactions between an infant-mother pair made over a 6 - 24 month period. The analysis focused on "supportive interactions by the parent with the infant," and "exploratory and performatory interaction with objects by the infant." We observed the interactive process between mother and child with toys by firstly recording the continuous progression of actions and speech by both the mother and infant. Secondly, we described the interactive development accompanying changes in the position of objects, and thirdly, we described the development of cooperative activities between both mother and infant.

Free Research Field

発達心理学