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Peer reviewedLittleton, Eliza Beth – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Ten children, 5- to 9-years old, taught magic tricks to absent and present peers through tape-recorded and face-to-face instructions. Children's informative, descriptive, and persuasive speech was compared for absent and present peers, and effects of age, practice, and trick length were assessed. Results revealed skills for informative and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audience Awareness, Audiotape Recordings, Descriptive Writing
Download full textMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; Rice, G. Elizabeth – 1983
Discourse can be organized in many different ways, two of these being comparison and a collection of descriptions. These two discourse types correspond to schemata that vary in their organizational components, and these differences can be expected to produce differences in the processing of text. For example, research has shown that for young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing
