Abstract

MAREOVICH, Florencia; JAUCK, Daniela Eva  and  PERALTA, Olga Alicia. The construction of oral productions in childhood from realistic and unrealistic images. CES Psicol [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.2, pp.85-101. ISSN 2011-3080.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.13.2.6.

The aim of this paper was to examine the creation of fictional narratives by 5 and 6 year-old children from images with different levels of realism. We analyzed 49 stories, 24 from realistic images and 25 from unrealistic images. First, the productions were classified into narratives, descriptions and other productions, and analyzed the arrangement of the images. Most of the children who participated in the unrealistic condition created narratives and identified one image for the beginning and another for the ending; while those who observed realistic images mostly made descriptions and did not arrange them into sequences. It was analyzed: number of words and segments and number of kinds of words; glossaries and segments of words sorted by frequency; characteristic responses (the most significant of each group). No differences were found neither in the number of words nor in the number of different word types used in each production. However, differences were found in the characteristic words and in the complete responses that characterized each group. More nouns were used in the descriptions, while verbs and causal connectors were used in the narratives. The characteristic response of the description consisted in a presentation of the images separately. The narrative introduced a conflict or emotional state, a resolution and a closure. The results showed that the children developed different productions (narrations or descriptions) according to the type of images they were exposed.

Keywords : Narratives; Descriptions; Unrealistic Pictures; Realistic Picture; Children; Cognitive Development; Language; Learning..

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