Gigliana Melzi

TL;DR: The authors provide a comprehensive overview of the key conceptual models that have applied the construct of motivation to second language acquisition, namely Gardner and Lambert's seminal Socio-educational Model of Motivation on Second Language Acquisition.

TL;DR: This paper examined cultural variations in narrative elicitation styles among two groups of mothers: Spanish-speaking Central Americans and English-speaking European Americans, and found that Central American mothers' elicitation style placed greater emphasis on conversational narrative aspects, whereas European American mothers focused to a greater extent on the organizational narrative aspects of the interaction.

TL;DR: This study investigated the narrative scaffolding styles of Spanish-speaking and English-speaking mothers as they engaged their preschool-aged children in family reminiscing and book sharing interactions, highlighting the importance of both narrative elaboration and narrative participation as defining dimensions of maternal scaffolding style.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed-methods investigation employed an emic approach to understand family engagement conceptualizations for a pan-Latino population and identified four theoretically meaningful dimensions of family engagement among Latino Head Start families were identified empirically.

TL;DR: This article examined the narrative styles of Spanish-speaking Peruvian and English-speaking U.S. American, college-educated mothers as they shared a wordless book with their three-year old children.