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Peer reviewedAbelman, Robert – Roeper Review, 2003
This investigation reinforces the conceptualization of television viewing as a learned activity by highlighting the interrelatedness of children's linguistic, cognitive, and perceptual skills for accurate comprehension of television's most basic narrative device--temporal sequencing. It also explores the impact of highly divergent skills and…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Television, Literacy, Information Processing
Peer reviewedCorcoran, Farrel; Schneider, Michael J. – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Explores the social correlates of the interpretive abilities of young children to assess televised narratives. Demonstrates negative correlations between amount of television viewed by parents and children's television comprehension, indicating that the more parents viewed television, the worse their children performed on comprehension tests.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Information Processing, Interpretive Skills
