summary, refs on peer interaction & language

[Diane Pesco]

Following are references gathered in response to my request for “studies
that involve analysis of the contributions of children aged 3-7 to the
language development (particularly L1) of their peers”.  The list is a
mixed bag: peer contributions to narrative, expression/socialization of
gender through language, the communicative behaviours of peer “models”

Few of the articles directly address peer interaction as a context for
or source of grammatical or lexical acquisition, with the exception of
some earlier work discussed and cited in Ervin-Tripp (see below).  Thank
you to those who responded and even sent off their work to me.  Much
appreciated.

Bryant, J. B., (2001).  Language in social contexts: Communicative
competence in the preschool years.  In J. B. Gleason (Ed)., The
development of language (5th ed) (pp. 213-253). Needham Heights, MA:
Allyn & Bacon.

Hirvonen, T. (1988). Children's foreigner talk: Peer talk in play
context. In S. M. Gass & C. G. Madden (Eds.), Input in Second Language
Acquisition. Rowley, MA:  Newbury House.

Küntay, A. & Senay, ?. (in press).  Narratives beget narratives: Rounds
of stories in Turkish preschool conversations. Journal of Pragmatics.

Nicolopoulou, A. (2002). Peer-group culture and narrative development.
In S. Blum-Kulka & C.E. Snow (Eds.), Talking to adults: The contribution
of multiparty discourse to language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.

Pershey, M. G. & Visoky, A. M. (2002). Characteristics of Effective Peer
Models in an Integrated Preschool Setting. Proceedings of Head Start's
Sixth National Research Conference. (Forthcoming, March 2003).

Sheldon, A. (1996). You Can Be the Baby Brother but You Aren't Born Yet:
Preschool Girls' Negotiation for Power and Access in Pretend Play.
Research on Language & Social Interaction, 29(1), 57-80.

and a few others I’m aware of ...

Ervin-Tripp, S. (1991). Play in language development. In B. Scales, M.
Almy, A. Nicolopoulou, & S. Ervin-Tripp (Eds.), Play and the social
context of development in early care and education (pp. 84-97).  NY:
Teachers College Press.

Kyratzis, A., Marx, T., Wade, E.R. (2001). Preschoolers' communicative
competence: Register shift in the marking of power in different contexts
of friendship group talk. First Language, 21(63, Pt 3), 387-431.

Preece, A. (1992). Collaborators and critics: The nature and effects of
peer interaction on children's conversational narratives. Journal of
Narrative & Life History, 2(3), 277-292. (journal now called Narrative
Inquiry)

Preece, A. (1987). The range of narrative forms conversationally
produced by young children. Journal of Child Language, 14(2) Jun
353-373.

Umiker-Sebeok, D. Jean. (1979). Preschool children's intraconversational
narratives. Journal of Child Language, 6(1), 91-109. Cambridge Univ
Press, US.

For those who might be interested in older children, we reported on the
contributions of 10-13 y.o. to their peers’ narratives of personal
experience (L1 Algonquin, L2 English speakers):

Pesco, D. & Crago, M. (1996). "We went home, told the whole story to our
friends": Narratives by children in an Algonquin community. Journal of
Narrative & Life History, 6(4) 1996, 293-321.


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Diane Pesco
Doctoral candidate
McGill University
Communication Sciences and Disorders

email dpesco2 at po-box.mcgill.ca
phone 514-398-4102
fax 514-398-8123

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