영아의 책읽기 활동과 쓰기 활동의 녹화 자료 분석과 영아의 쓰기 작품 분석을 통해, 영아의 초기 문해 발달과 책읽기 활동에서의 영아와 부모간의 언어적 상호작용 유형 및 언어적 상호작용 진행 순서를 제시하였다. 만 1, 2, 3세 시기에 상당한 초기 문해 발달이 이루어지고, 연령이 높아짐에 따라 발달된 행동이나 전략 사용이 나타났다. 부모가 적용하는 언어적 상호작용 유형과 언어적 상호작용 진행 순서는 연령에 따라 다르고, 연령이 높을수록 좀더 연결적 · 연속적 상호작용이 이루어졌다.

This study investigates the development of emergent reading and writing skills, parents` verbal interaction patterns, and the sequential order of verbal behaviors in infant-parent reading activities. We made videotapes of reading and writing activities of 10 children aged 12-31 months with their parents at their homes over a one year period. We used a qualitative analysis for the development of emergent reading and writing skills, and used χ² and z-scores for verbal interaction patterns according to age levels and sequential dependencies for reading activities, respectively. As children grow older, their emergent reading skills develop further. The most frequent reading behaviors are: pointing at the pictures in a book using fingers for 1-year olds, labeling for 2-year olds, and making-up stories by looking at pictures for 3-year olds. Most of the emergent writing of infants between 12 months and 43 months can be described as scribbling and drawing. But we observed that some developmental patterns of writing behavior changed from indifferentiated scribbling to differentiated scribbling and drawing. Significant differences in parents` verbal interaction patterns and in the sequential order of their behaviors were found according to the infants` age level. Parents used more attention-recruiting remarks for 1- to 2-year olds and more feedback and elaboration for 2-year olds. The sequential order of parents` verbal interaction patterns in reading with their infants is as follows: For 1- to 2-year olds, the parents initiated interactions by giving attention-recruiting remarks, followed by asking questions, and then gave feedback or elaboration on the questions. For 3-year olds, the parents did not make any attention-recruiting remarks, they simply ask questions and then gave feedback.