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TY - JOUR
T1 - Early narrative skills in Chilean preschool
T2 - questions scaffold the production of coherent narratives
AU - Silva, Macarena
AU - Strasser, Katherine
AU - Cain, Kate
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Early Childhood Research Quarterly 29 (2), 2014, © ELSEVIER.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This study examined whether or not question answering aided the construction of coherent narratives in pre-readers. Sixty Chilean preschoolers completed two tasks using a wordless picture-book: 30 children answered questions about the story and then produced a narrative using the book; 30 children completed the tasks in reverse order. Elements of coherence were assessed in both tasks, namely problem, resolution, and mental-states. The findings indicate that questions can scaffold the production of more coherent narratives. Narratives elicited after questions were judged to be more coherent than those produced before the question–answering task. In contrast, there were no differences between scores for the question answers in the different order conditions. The results are discussed regarding the interactional role of questions and the facilitative effect they have on focusing attention to the narrative task.
AB - This study examined whether or not question answering aided the construction of coherent narratives in pre-readers. Sixty Chilean preschoolers completed two tasks using a wordless picture-book: 30 children answered questions about the story and then produced a narrative using the book; 30 children completed the tasks in reverse order. Elements of coherence were assessed in both tasks, namely problem, resolution, and mental-states. The findings indicate that questions can scaffold the production of more coherent narratives. Narratives elicited after questions were judged to be more coherent than those produced before the question–answering task. In contrast, there were no differences between scores for the question answers in the different order conditions. The results are discussed regarding the interactional role of questions and the facilitative effect they have on focusing attention to the narrative task.
KW - Narrative
KW - Preschoolers
KW - Questions
KW - Scaffolding
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.02.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 205
EP - 213
JO - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -