The effect of interactive media on children's story memory.

Ricci, Christine M.; Beal, Carole R.

doi:10.1037//0022-0663.94.1.138

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“…Several experiments reveal that children recall narrative text better and generate more appropriate inferences when the verbal text is accompanied by appropriate illustrations (e.g., Beagles-Roos & Gat, 1983;Beentjes & van der Voort, 1991;Gambrell & Jawitz, 1993;Gibbons, Anderson, Smith, Field, & Fischer, 1986;Greenhoot & Semb, 2008;Guttmann, Levin, & Pressley, 1977;Hayes, Kelly, & Mandel, 1986;O'Keefe & Solman, 1987;Pike, Barnes, & Barron, 2010;Ricci & Beal, 2002;Salomon & Leigh, 1984; for a review see Pressley, 1977). In some studies, differences between verbal-and-visual and verbal-only text are more pronounced in younger than in older children (Gibbons et al, 1986;Guttmann et al, 1977;Pike et al, 2010).…”

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Children’s surface, textbase, and situation model representations of written and illustrated written narrative text

2021

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According to the tripartite model of text representation (van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983), readers form representations of the text surface and textbase, and construct a situation model. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate whether these levels of representation would be affected by adding illustrations to narrative text and whether the order of text and illustrations would make a difference. Students aged between 7 and 13 years (N = 146) read 12 narrative texts, 4 of them with illustrations presented before their corresponding sentences, 4 with illustrations presented after, and 4 without any illustration. A sentence recognition task was used to assess the accuracy for text surface, textbase, and situation model. For the text surface and situation model, neither the presence of illustrations nor the order of text and illustrations influenced accuracy. However, the textbase was negatively affected by illustrations when they followed their corresponding sentences. We suggest that illustrations can initiate model inspection after situation model construction (Schnotz, 2014), a process that can make substantial changes to the textbase representation.

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