Inference Generation, Story Comprehension, and Language Skills in the Preschool Years

Autor/inn/en	Tompkins, Virginia; Guo, Ying; Justice, Laura M.
Titel	Inference Generation, Story Comprehension, and Language Skills in the Preschool Years
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26 (2013) 3, S.403-429 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-012-9374-7
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Language Skills; Inferences; Reading Comprehension; Story Reading; Picture Books; Prediction; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Inference; Inferenz; Leseverstehen; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Vorhersage; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Several researchers have shown that children's ability to make inferences is related to their reading comprehension. The majority of research on this topic has been conducted on older children. However, given the recent focus on the importance of narrative comprehension in prereaders, the current study examined the relationship between inference making and story comprehension in 4- to 5-year-olds. We examined children's online inferences while narrating a wordless book as well as children's story comprehension of a different storybook. We found that children's total number of inferences was significantly related to their story comprehension. Three types of inferences were significantly related to story comprehension--characters goals, actions that achieved those goals, and character states. In a hierarchical regression controlling for children's age and expressive vocabulary, a composite of these three inference types significantly predicted children's story comprehension. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10