A Case Study on Parent-Child Interactions in Japanese Family Picture Book Reading Activities : Transformation of Picture Book Questions

This paper studies how textual questions in picture books are transformed into relevant questions in the process of storytelling by the parents. By looking at two examples from a dataset of picture book reading conversations, this analysis reveals how Japanese parents incorporate Japanese linguistic structures, embodied resources, and physical materials from picture books into their own actions, through which they easily engage children in reading activities and enhance their understanding.