Episodic Development in Preschool Children's Play-Prompted and Direct-Elicited Narratives

Autor/inn/en	Ilgaz, Hande; Aksu-Koc, Ayhan
Titel	Episodic Development in Preschool Children's Play-Prompted and Direct-Elicited Narratives
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 20 (2005) 4, S.526-544 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.08.004
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Age Differences; Story Grammar; Play; Preschool Children; Personal Narratives; Language Acquisition; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Spiel; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Erlebniserzählung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	This study investigated the premise that action, manifested here through pretend play, is a semiotic arena that can enhance narrative development. It was hypothesized that children would produce structurally more complex narratives in play-prompted elicitation than in direct elicitation conditions, and that this competence would increase with age. Thirty Turkish 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds, with 10 children per age group, participated in the study. Children's narratives were analyzed according to a story grammar framework that differentiated between pre-episodic and episodic structures. A repeated-measures ANOVA revealed a significant effect between age and type of elicitation condition. Narratives displaying an episodic structure with temporal-causally integrated components were observed in the play-prompt elicitation condition by 4-year-olds and in the direct elicitation condition by 5-year-olds, supporting the hypothesis that action helps enhance narrative development. It is concluded that the emerging competence of children to construct narratives with episodic structures can best be observed in play contexts where action and objects scaffold both the conceptual organization and its expression. (Author).
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