Do kindergarten make similar inferences compared to older children while listening to fictional stories? The relevance of distinguishing elaborative and predictive inferences.

EasyChair Preprint 3844

Abstract

In this study, we examine whether Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 children (N=142) can make elaborative and predictive inferences while listening to fictional stories. Inferential skills were assessed through a drawing decision task. Our result showed that most children were able to produce both types of inferences. But, more precisely Grade 1 and Grade 2 spontaneously focused more on predictive inferences whereas kindergarten were more accurate on elaborative ones.

Keyphrases: early readers, elaborative inferences, kindergarten child, narrative story, pre-readers, predictive inferences

@booklet{EasyChair:3844,
  author    = {Lorene Causse and Adil Yakhloufi and Arielle Syssau and Sara Creissen and Nathalie Blanc},
  title     = {Do kindergarten make similar inferences compared to older children while listening to fictional stories? The relevance of distinguishing elaborative and predictive inferences.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3844},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}