Parent-child book sharing and reminiscing conversations are two important home activities that promote young children's early language and literacy skills. Yet extant research has focused on middle-class Anglo-European families, with relatively little attention given to styles of book sharing and reminiscing in other cultural contexts. To further explore home practices and children's development in Latin America, we examined the relationships between caregiver's conversational style while reminiscing and book sharing and children's emerging language and literacy skills. The sample included 108 low-income, Costa Rican caregivers and their preschool-aged children. Results from cluster analyses identified two types of caregiver book sharing styles, the story builder and the story teller; and two types of reminiscing styles, the high elicitor and the low elicitor. These styles uncovered different links to child participation in conversation and emerging language and literacy skills. Findings are discussed in light of furthering culturally appropriate research, practices, and policy to support early childhood and family literacy for young children and their caregivers in Costa Rica.

亲子书籍分享和回忆对话是促进幼儿早期语言和识字能力的两项重要的家庭活动。然而，现存的研究集中在中产阶级的盎格鲁-欧洲家庭，相对较少关注其他文化背景下的书籍分享和回忆方式。为了进一步探索拉丁美洲的家庭实践和儿童发展，我们研究了看护人在回忆和书籍分享时的对话风格与儿童新兴的语言和识字技能之间的关系。样本包括 108 名低收入的哥斯达黎加照顾者及其学龄前儿童。聚类分析的结果确定了两种类型的看护者书籍分享风格，即故事构建者和讲故事者；和两种怀旧风格，高激发子和低激发子。这些风格揭示了与儿童参与对话以及新兴语言和识字技能的不同联系。讨论结果是为了进一步促进文化上适当的研究、实践和政策，以支持哥斯达黎加幼儿及其照顾者的早期儿童和家庭扫盲。