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2022 , Vol. 20 >Issue 1: 59 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.01.009

The Influence of Teachers’ Descriptions in Dialogue on Children’s Language Comprehension

  • ZHANG Huan ,
  • ZUO Tianran ,
  • JIANG Wei ,
  • PEI Lingru ,
  • WU Xia
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  • 1. Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    3. Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’ Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin 300387

Received date: 2021-07-02

  Online published: 2022-01-20

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Abstract

Previous studies showed that dialogue language can be better understood by the listener than monologue language. To investigate the influence of teachers’ descriptions in dialogue on school-age children’s language comprehension and its underlying mechanisms, different grade (first-, third-, and fifth-grade) of school-age children listened to the recordings of teachers from a tangram-description task, and attempted to identify the described target. The results showed that the correct recognition percentage of first-grade children in full-dialogue condition and half-dialogue condition were significantly higher than that in monologue condition. However, no significant difference of the third-grade children under three conditions was found. Importantly, the accuracy of the fifth-grade children in full-dialogue condition was significantly higher than that in monologue and half-dialogue conditions. These results can provide empirical evidence for the processes and mechanisms of how teachers’ descriptions affect children’s language comprehension in online and offline educational situation, and can help school-age children to better understand the knowledge given by teachers in the learning process and improve their language comprehension abilities.

Key words： descriptions; language comprehension; school-age children; dialogue; monologue

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ZHANG Huan , ZUO Tianran , JIANG Wei , PEI Lingru , WU Xia . The Influence of Teachers’ Descriptions in Dialogue on Children’s Language Comprehension[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(1) : 59 -64 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.01.009

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