Using a wordless picture book to explore children’s narrative production in rural Kenya [PDF]
Reading & WritingBackground: Early language development is critical for literacy acquisition and academic success. However, children in rural Africa often face challenges such as limited access to literacy resources and minimal shared reading experiences at home, which ...
Rehema Abiyo +6 more
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A large-scale repository of spoken narratives in French, German and Spanish from Cantonese-speaking learners [PDF]
Scientific Data, 2023 Interdisciplinary research on foreign language learning has important implications for learning and education. In this paper, we present the Repository of Third Language (L3) Spoken Narratives from Modern Language Learners in Hong Kong (L3HK Repository).
Xin Kang +3 more
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Gaze-Speech Coordination During Narration in Autism Spectrum Disorder and First-Degree Relatives [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Narrative differences in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and subtle and parallel differences among their first-degree relatives suggest potential genetic liability to this critical social-communication skill.
Jiayin Xing +6 more
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Ecoliteracy Through Imagery: A Close Reading of Two Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
Children's Literature in Education, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to propose some ways of reading two wordless picture storybooks which have recently been published, by Suzy Lee and Bernardo Carvalho respectively. The objective is to analyse the ways in which the visual discourse can create an effective narrative using a variety of pictorial strategies.
Ana Margarida Ramos +2 more
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Early parent-child intervention with Dialogic Book-Sharing: effects on child communicative and socio-emotional development and on parenting. Study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial in Italy [PDF]
TrialsBackground Research in the neurosciences has highlighted the importance of intersubjective relationships in promoting neuromental development of the child.
Cena Loredana +5 more
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Narrative dialogic reading with wordless picture books: A cluster-randomized intervention study
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020 Shared reading has the potential to promote a wide range of language skills that are important for reading acquisition. Dialogic reading interventions in preschool facilitate the acquisition of vocabulary and narrative production skills, but it is unclear (a) whether dialogic reading can also foster inferential and literal narrative comprehension and ...
Lorenz Grolig +2 more
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Image perception and reception in wordless picture books: Eye movements of children with intellectual disabilities. [PDF]
J Intellect DisabilWordless picture books enhance comprehension and vocabulary growth and motivate children with intellectual disabilities to participate in literary activities. However, the reception of picture books can be challenging because deliberate selective attention processes and recognition of the image's meaning are often delayed.
Sarimski R +3 more
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The Significance of Applying Wordless Picture Book in Teaching Chinese Children [PDF]
Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2022 exaly +2 more sources
Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books
TESOL Journal, 2023 AbstractTeaching literacy skills that require critical reading and linguistic output can feel like an insurmountable challenge when presented with students of varying language proficiencies. One valuable but often unused tool to surmount these challenges is wordless picture books (WPBs).
Jennifer D. Honaker, Ryan T. Miller
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A pilot study on the aesthetic communication process of readers interpreting wordless picturebooks based on the Anno’s Journey series [PDF]
Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, 2013 This study investigated the genealogy of iconographic interpretation. By adopting an aesthetic communication model for reader responses as the basis for consideration, we regarded reader-book interactions as the artistic and receptive poles of the ...
Yu-Chai Lai
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