问问题是否有助于学龄前儿童记住更多的单词而不是倾听?
Laura Janakiefski1, Megan Saylor1
1Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Journal of child language
|November 4, 2025
概括
与简单的倾听相比,问问题并没有改善幼儿的词汇学习. 这项研究表明,仅仅是询问行为并不能提高学龄前儿童的单词记忆力.
科学领域:
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 语言获取 语言获取
背景情况:
- 孩子们自然会用问题来学习.
- 之前的研究表明,积极学习可以提高单词的记忆力.
- 对于提问对早期词语学习的具体好处尚未完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 调查问询是否与被动倾听相比,改善了儿童的单词记忆.
- 确定主动问题生成是否有助于学龄前儿童学习新词.
主要方法:
- 64名英语儿童 (年龄在4~6岁) 被随机分配到一个问问题或倾听的条件.
- 参与者确定了新的对象,问问题组被允许提出问题来帮助选择.
- 两组都得到了相同的对象信息和词汇暴露.
主要成果:
- 在"问问题"和"听话"两种条件下,孩子们都成功地记住了新词.
- 两组对象选择准确性相似,表明性能没有显著差异.
- 提出问题的机会并没有比被动倾听更好地选择目标.
结论:
- 关于新词的简单提问行为似乎并不能提高幼儿的单词记忆力.
- 需要进行进一步的研究,以探索可能影响学习问问题的好处的其他因素.
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