{"pk":26247,"title":"Questions in informal teaching: A study of mother-child conversations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Questioning is a core component of formal pedagogy. Parents\ncommonly question children, but do they use questions to teach?\nResearch has shown that informal pedagogical situations elicit\nstronger inferences than the same evidence observed in non-\npedagogical situations. Certain questions (“pedagogical questions”)\nhave similar features. We investigate the frequency and distribution\nof pedagogical questions from mother-child conversations\ndocumented in the CHILDES database. We show that pedagogical\nquestions are commonplace, are more frequent for middle-class\nmothers compared to working-class mothers, are more frequent\nduring free play than during daily routines, and are more frequent in\nmothers who ask more questions. The results serve as a first step\ntowards understanding the role of questions in informal pedagogy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"informal pedagogy; mother-child conversation;\nindividual differences; socioeconomic status; CHILDES."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r10p95n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yue","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bonawitz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Patrick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shafto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26247/galley/15883/download/"}]}