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Interactive Elaborative Storytelling: Engaging Children as Storytellers to Foster Vocabulary.

ABSTRACT: Positive effects of shared reading for children's language development are boosted by including instruction of word meanings and by increasing interactivity. The effects of engaging children as storytellers on vocabulary development have been less well studied. We developed an approach termed Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES), which employs both word-learning techniques and children's storytelling in a shared-reading setting. To systematically investigate potential benefits of children as storytellers, we contrasted this approach to two experimental groups, an Elaborative Storytelling group employing word-learning techniques but no storytelling by children and a Read-Aloud group, excluding any additional techniques. The study was a 3 × 2 pre-posttest randomized design with 126 preschoolers spanning 1 week. Measured outcomes were receptive and expressive target vocabulary, story memory, and children's behavior during story sessions. All three experimental groups made comparable gains on target words from pre- to posttest and there was no difference between groups in story memory. However, in the Elaborative Storytelling group, children were the least restless. Findings are discussed in terms of their contribution to optimizing shared reading as a method of fostering language.

SUBMITTER: Vaahtoranta E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6648006 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interactive Elaborative Storytelling: Engaging Children as Storytellers to Foster Vocabulary.

Vaahtoranta Enni E Lenhart Jan J Suggate Sebastian S Lenhard Wolfgang W

Frontiers in psychology 20190705

Positive effects of shared reading for children's language development are boosted by including instruction of word meanings and by increasing interactivity. The effects of engaging children as storytellers on vocabulary development have been less well studied. We developed an approach termed <i>Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES)</i>, which employs both word-learning techniques and children's storytelling in a shared-reading setting. To systematically investigate potential benefits of ch ...[more]

PMID: 31379642

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Project description:PurposeUsing a novel parent report measure, this study investigated whether asking parents to rate their certainty when reporting on child vocabulary skills provided additional insight into parent report and emerging language abilities in young autistic children. Specifically, we investigated whether parent certainty varied based on whether the child was reported to understand, understand and say, or neither understand nor say the word and whether standardized measures of expressive and receptive language abilities and/or autistic traits predicted parent certainty. Lastly, we investigated whether certainty was associated with inconsistency in parent report of child word knowledge.MethodTwenty-one parents and their autistic children ages 2-5 years participated. One parent per child completed the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI) Words and Gestures form and a custom vocabulary checklist including 24 object nouns from the MCDI. Within the custom form, parents indicated whether their child understood, understood and said, or neither understood nor said 24 target nouns and reported how certain they were about their responses using a 5-point scale. Expressive language, receptive language, and autistic traits were measured via direct assessment using standardized measures.ResultsParent certainty varied widely and was higher for words the parents reported the children understood and said compared to that for words children either understood or neither understood nor said. Certainty ratings were higher when a child had higher standardized receptive and expressive language scores. Lastly, parent certainty was associated with reporting consistency, clarifying previous findings of inconsistencies in parent report of child vocabulary.ConclusionFindings from this study indicate that measuring parent certainty provides critical information when assessing early vocabulary skills in autistic children.Supplemental materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.23671497.

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Interactive Elaborative Storytelling: Engaging Children as Storytellers to Foster Vocabulary.

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