Lenhart, Jan and Lenhard, Wolfgang and Vaahtoranta, Enni and Suggate, Sebastian (2020) More than words: Narrator engagement during storytelling increases children's word learning, story comprehension, and on-task behavior. EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY, 51. pp. 338-351. ISSN 0885-2006, 1873-7706
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Reading stories to children fosters their language development. An approach rarely investigated is narrators telling stories without reading from text (i.e., oral storytelling). Oral storytelling may differ from more commonly employed read-aloud approaches in terms of language complexity and the opportunity to regulate the storytelling process via attention-guiding behavior, such as eye contact and gesticulation. By experimentally separating the influences of language complexity and attention-guiding behavior, the current study tried to shed light on the effect of story-delivery method (oral storytelling vs. read-aloud) and its underlying mechanisms on novel word acquisition, story comprehension, and children's on-task behavior. In a 4 x 2 mixed-design, with method of story delivery (live read-aloud vs. live oral storytelling vs. audiotaped read-aloud vs. audiotaped oral storytelling) as a between-subjects factor and time (pretest vs. posttest) as a within-subjects factor, a sample of 60 four- to six-year-old children listened to four short stories in one of the four conditions twice. Target-word learning from pre- to posttest as well as story comprehension were measured. Additionally, in the live conditions storyteller and child behavior was coded. Although learning occurred across conditions, live oral storytelling resulted in the largest gains in receptive target-vocabulary and best story comprehension. In addition, children were less restless and more attentive during live oral storytelling. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MIXED-EFFECTS MODELS; VOCABULARY INTERVENTION; BOOK READINGS; INSTRUCTION; SKILLS; ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE; KINDERGARTEN; QUESTIONS; LITERACY; Language development; Oral storytelling; Read-aloud; Vocabulary acquisition; Child engagement |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Bildungswissenschaft > Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger) Human Sciences > Institut für Bildungswissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2021 08:27 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2021 08:27 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45480 |
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