¿Y esto qué es? ¿Por qué...? El desarrollo de unidades de discurso explicativas durante la lectura de cuentos en el hogar

Alejandra Stein; Ailín Paula Franco Accinelli; Eliana Belén González Lynn

doi:10.46553/RPSI.17.33.2021.p81-103

Authors

Alejandra Stein Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental. Argentina ; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Argentina
Ailín Paula Franco Accinelli Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental. Argentina
Eliana Belén González Lynn Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/RPSI.17.33.2021.p81-103

Keywords:

discursive development, storybook reading, explanation, infancy

Abstract

The aim of the study is to contribute to the knowledge of the characteristics of the explanatory speech produced during 39 storybook reading in 13 middle income argentinean homes when children were 30 and 42 months old. The explanatory discourse units produced during the exchanges about the story were analyzed according to the type of explanation, who initiated and produced them, and their level of distance from the immediate environment of the situation. Results showed the potential of storybook reading for the production of complex explanatory speech in comparison with play and meal situations. Differences were found according to children’s age and to familiarity with the story read. The pedagogical implications of the study are highlighted.

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