Same Topic, Different Genre: Elementary School Children's Mental Representations of Information Embedded in Narrative and Expository Texts

EasyChair Preprint 6239

Abstract

Using a sentence recognition task, we investigated whether elementary school children’s (N = 92) memory of the text surface, the textbase, and the situation model differed depending on whether the same information was embedded in an expository or a narrative text. Other than previous research with children that used narrative and expository texts dealing with different topics, our results did not indicate differences between narrative and expository texts for any of the levels of representation. Thus, the effect of text topic on effects of genre on text comprehension might be important to consider and needs to be investigated further.

Keyphrases: children, comprehension, expository text, narrative text

@booklet{EasyChair:6239,
  author    = {Wienke Wannagat and Catharina Tibken and Gerhild Nieding},
  title     = {Same Topic, Different Genre: Elementary School Children's Mental Representations of Information Embedded in Narrative and Expository Texts},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6239},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}