Children’s Emergent Epistemology: Investigating Language Links between Parent and Child Concepts of Achievement and Knowledge.

Studies show children’s performance on difficult tasks positively correlates with metacognitive private speech, and relatedly, mastery motivation. This study elicited on-task speech from preschoolers during a fishing task, which was linked to achievement-oriented parent language. Results suggest reciprocal socialization between parent achievement orientations and children’s metacognitive private speech.