Title: Improving Children's Listening Comprehension with a Manipulation Strategy
Abstract:ABSTRACT The authors examined the cognitive benefits of physical manipulation. Participants were 76 kindergarten and first-grade students randomly assigned to 2 strategies: stories with pictures or ma...ABSTRACT The authors examined the cognitive benefits of physical manipulation. Participants were 76 kindergarten and first-grade students randomly assigned to 2 strategies: stories with pictures or manipulation. In the pictures strategy, participants listened to story content and viewed pictures. In the manipulation strategy, participants moved manipulatives as directed by the stories. After a training period, the pictures or manipulatives were removed and participants were instructed to imagine story events. Significant differences in favor of the manipulation strategy on free and cued recall were observed during all 3 instructional periods. Furthermore, strategy by recall type and strategy by grade-level interactions were identified during the training sessions. After training, the participants were instructed to imagine story events, and a significant difference was observed in favor of the manipulation strategy. Keywords: activityhands-on learningstrategy. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the children, parents, teachers and principals of Gilson Brown Elementary School and West Elementary School in Alton, Illinois. In addition, they would like to express their gratitude to Joel R. Levin and Arthur M. Glenberg for several of the ideas associated with the study, Lydia "Gene" Coffield for editing preliminary drafts of the manuscript, and Tiffany Holmes for coding recall data.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-15
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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