Turning Frogs into Princes: Can Children Make Inferences from Fairy Tales?

Autor/inn/en	Bowyer-Crane, Claudine; Snowling, Margaret J.
Titel	Turning Frogs into Princes: Can Children Make Inferences from Fairy Tales?
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 23 (2010) 1, S. 19-29Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-008-9147-5
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Sentences; Fairy Tales; Inferences; Childrens Literature; Responses; Cognitive Processes; Reading Processes; Thinking Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Fairy tale; Fairytale; Fairytales; Fairy-tale; Fairy-tales; Märchen; Inference; Inferenz; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Leseprozess; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	Background: This study investigates children's ability to generate inferences from narratives containing counterfactual information. Methods: 39 typically developing readers (mean age 10; 05) completed an on-line task in which they were asked to read short passages, followed by sentences which they had to judge as true or false. The sentences pertained to either a causal inference or a static inference that could have been made during the reading of the passage. The passages and corresponding sentences were either true in terms of real world knowledge, or were presented as fairy tales. Results: Results indicated that overall children responded faster and more accurately to sentences related to causal inferences than to static inferences. Responses to both types of inferences were slower in the "fairy story" condition. Conclusions: Children's pattern of inference generation appears to be the same irrespective of the factual basis of the passage. However, responses to sentences based on inferences in the preceding passage are slower in fairy stories. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10