Argumentative writing in pre-adolescents: The role of verbal reasoning  

Oleh:

Nippold, Marilyn A. ; Ward-Lonergan, Jeannene M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Child Language Teaching and Therapy (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST) vol. 26 no. 3 (2010), page 238-249.
Topik: argumentative writing; pre-adolescents; verbal reasoning
Fulltext: 2010.26.3.238-249.pdf (198.76KB)

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Argumentative writing is a challenging communication task that calls upon sophisticated cognitive and linguistic abilities. Pre-adolescents (n = 80; mean age = 11;10; range = 10;6–13:5) were asked to write an argumentative essay on the controversial topic of training animals to perform in circuses. Additionally, they were asked to solve a set of verbal reasoning problems. Children whose essays reflected a more flexible attitude toward the controversy (Conditional subgroup) outperformed their peers whose attitude was more rigid (Absolute subgroup) on all key measures: Verbal Analogical Reasoning, Total Number of Reasons, and Mean Length of Utterance in Words. Implications for instruction and intervention with pre-adolescents are discussed.

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