Effects of picture prompts on story retelling performance in typically developing children

• Autor(a) principal: Sella,Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Bandini,Carmen Silvia Motta, Bandini,Heloísa Helena Motta, Ribeiro,Daniela Mendonça, Vieira,Hilton Caio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722015000200397
• topic: Story retelling; children; pictures; visual prompts

Telling and retelling stories and facts are behavioral repertoires that are constantly recruited in social situations, no matter if these situations occur at school, with the family, or at leisure times. This study aimed at systematically evaluating if 11 first graders (age range six to seven), would perform better in retelling tasks when pictorial prompts were presented. Dependent variables were (a) number of story categories inserted in the retelling tasks and (b) number of retold words per story. The independent variable was the presentation of visual prompts during story retelling tasks. Results indicated that visual prompts did not result in consistent increase in performance when the number of story categories inserted was analyzed. Additionally, there was no consistent increase in the number of words retold when pictures were presented. Future studies should investigate whether repeated exposure to stories would result in a significant change in performance.