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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hua, Zhu, 1970- (Editor ), Jin, Lixian, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Benjamins current topics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9789027270269
9027270260
1306705878
9781306705875
9027202796
9789027202796