A STUDY OF ASSOCIATION OF MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT AND THE CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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1989
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ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
Abstract
One of the most meaningful and pow~rful ways to
communicate is by means of language. It is a symbolic
form which is used for human interactions and it is
crucially important in many ways.
The social interaction between child and
parents and between the child and other children are
equally important for acquisition of language. The home
environment should be stimulating and rewarding which
facilitate languuge acquisition. The child mostly hears
the speech of primary care-taker usually his mother.
The amount of time spent with mother or mother person
during early years has a significant relationship to the
language acquisition of the child. Social attachment
and shared attention patterns between .mother and child
set the stage for language acquisition.
Change in the status of women because of change
in civilization, urbanisation, the opening of ~pportunities
and the greater encouragement for women to
persue meaningful career have ~esulted in the rise of
female employment. So thus daycare centres are
possibly the only solution to help working women in
bringing up their children. Whether the mother is employed
or unemployed it is the quality of relationship
between mother and child is an important f actoL in
acquiring linguistic ability.
The concept of socialization has always been a
part of human life. In daycare centre children have an
opportunity to interact with other children in a group.
This interaction process help the child to be best
socialized in a group. The more the child is
socialiazed, the more the interaction and the better
the child acquires the language skills.
From the review collected it was felt very
limited research has been conducted in the
mother-child interaction in the process of
acquisition and impact of socialization on
acquisition of the children. Therefore a need
to conduct the present study.
field of
language
language
was felt
The objectives of the sture were, To compare
the mother child interaction in the process of language
acquisition of employed and unemployed mothers. To
compare the language acquisition of children of
employed mothers whose children are in daycare centre
and unemployed mother's children who are constantly
with the mothers at home, To assess the level of
socialization of children exposed to daycare centre and
who are constantly with the mother. The sample
constituted of 30 employed mother's children from two
daycare centres (1) Baby Creche Telephone Bhavan
(2) Sishu Vihar at Secretariat of Hyderabad and 30
unemployed mother's children.
The sample included only those:
(1) Children in the age group of 1-3 years
( 2 ) Children belonging to the families
mother tongue was Telugu
whose
(3) Children belonging to the families whose total
monthly income ranged from Rs.3000/- to
Rs.6000/-
(4) Children whose mother's educational level was
intermediate and above in both employed and
unemployed groups
(5) Children from nuclear families were selected
Data for the present study was collected using
check-lists to assess mother-child interaction in the
process of language acquisition and to assess language
development of children. A score card \·:as used to
assess socialization of the children.
The data
by using paired
results revealed
collected~ was tabulated and analysed
t-test and two sample t-test. The
are as follows:A significant difference was found in motherchild
interactions of employed and un .. 1ployed
mothersResults revealed a significant difference in
the language acquisition of emplcyed mother's
children at daycare centre and at home
No significant difference was
language acquisition of employed
children ab· daycare centre and
mother's children at home
found inmother'sunemployedNo significant difference was found in language
acquisition of employed mother's children at
home and unemployed mother's children at home
No significant difference was found in
socialization of employed mother's children at
daycare centre and at home
Results showed no significant difference was
found in socialization of employed mother's
children at daycare centre and unemployed
mother's children at home
No significant difference was found in
socialization of employed mother's children
at home and unemployed mother's cuildren at
home.
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Keywords
ASSOCIATION, MATERNAL, EMPLOYMENT, CHILDREN'S, LANGUAGE, ACQUISITION,