Explanatory relations in narratives: Effects of adjustments to the listener's state of knowledge in 6 to 11 year-old children
Résumé
This study assesses how the state of knowledge 4-to-11 years old children share with their interlocutors affects their narratives. The story they construct before and after a scaffolding procedure is based on a sequence of five pictures whose underlying theme is a misunderstanding between the characters. Results show that in younger, but not in older children, there is a trade off between the identification of the characters and the elaboration of the plot, particularly when this concerns the elucidation of the misunderstanding between the characters
Domaines
Linguistique
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