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Record W4417538867 · doi:10.1080/01434632.2025.2596158

Dialogic Reading in multilingual contexts: Chinese-Canadian parents’ practices and perspectives

2025· article· en· W4417538867 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRussian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et Culture
KeywordsDialogicReading (process)MultilingualismDiscourse analysisLanguage proficiencyMultimodalityMetalinguistics

Abstract

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This study examines how parent–child interactions evolve following dialogic reading (DR) instruction for parents and parents’ perspectives on DR. Chinese-Canadian parents (N = 29) and their three- to six-year-old child participated. Data was gathered via a questionnaire, observations of parent–child dyads while reading a Chinese and a societal language book, reading logs, and focus groups. A mixed model showed that dyads engaged in significantly more dialogic talk following the DR instruction than at pretest, irrespective of the book’s language. Via the reading logs and focus groups, parents reported positive experiences with DR and a willingness to continue using it, but expressed concerns regarding their knowledge or skills, the divergence of DR from home practices, practical constraints, and child resistance. The findings indicate DR’s potential to enrich parent–child interactions but also highlight challenges in sustaining DR that can inform practice with families raising their child with more than one language.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.477
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.321 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it