英文摘要 |
The quality of mental state talk between parent and child plays an important role on children’s development in understanding of the mind; and parent-child reading takes a significant role in such progress. However, there is still few qualitative description and analysis in the research of mental state talk. Therefore, the research aimed to analyze the contents of mothers’ mental state talks in parent-child reading activities to understand how the mothers scaffold their children in learning about the mental world.The subjects were eight mothers of children from two five-year-old kindergarten classes. Research data were collected and analyzed from the parent-child reading process of three fairy tales involving understanding of mind - “Little Red Riding Hood”, “The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids”, and “Town Musicians of Bremen”.The results were found in the research: (1) The mental state terms used by the mothers could be categorized into three types: cognitive, desire, and feeling. (2) Several characteristics were found in the mothers’ awareness and presentation about understanding of the mind: (a) Deception was the most significantly presented content by the mothers; (b) Mothers easily neglected false belief content which was affected by picture clues; (c) Talks about cognitive (believe) and desire content were deeply affected by the text clues; (d) Mothers’ mental state talk did not involve recursive thinking. (3) The mothers’ talking strategies used to improve children’s understanding of mind included: encouraging children to guess the purposes and thoughts of behaviors, reviewing story context, co-presenting truth and falseness, choosing children as the main characters to generalize the story plots, and to strengthen character behaviors by singing and reading. According to the above results, the researcher proposed proper suggestions to parents, child book authors, and following researchers. |