Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children /:

This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of im...

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Other Authors: Hua, Zhu, 1970- (Editor), Jin, Lixian, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:Benjamins current topics.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of images first, followed by actions and then characters' states; (3) It is easier for children to understand images prominent in pictures than those not prominent in pictures or containing culture-specific information with which children are not familiar, actions represented directly through the relationship of differ.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9789027270269
9027270260
1306705878
9781306705875
9027202796
9789027202796

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