IRICE   05408
INSTITUTO ROSARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Young children’s comprehension and production of graphic symbols: examining age-related changes in two socioeconomic groups.
Autor/es:
SALSA A. Y PERALTA, O.
Lugar:
Boston, EEUU
Reunión:
Congreso; Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development; 2007
Institución organizadora:
Society for Research in Child Development
Resumen:
The current research focused on the extent to which the emergence of comprehension and production of representational drawings could be affected by symbolic experience--as a function of age and socioeconomic context. Our research had two goals: (a) to examine 2.5- to 4-year-old children’s performance on a task in which they have to produce drawings of simple objects and to understand their own drawings and the experimenter’s drawings as symbols; (b) to investigate socioeconomic differences on task performance--low SES (LSES) vs. middle SES (MSES). The participants were 80 children, half LSES and half MSES. The task used was analogous to the one employed by Callaghan (1999) and consisted of two phases, production and comprehension. Results show that 2.5- and 3-year-old children of both SES groups were unable to effectively produce graphic symbols or to comprehend their own drawings as representations, although they clearly understood the relation between the experimenter’s drawings and their referents. SES differences were found for the 3.5- and 4-year-old groups. MSES 3.5-year-olds succeeded on both comprehension tasks, but they produced representational drawings only when they had to draw the real objects. In contrast, LSES children understood the experimenter’s but not their own drawings and failed both production tasks. Finally, at 4 years of age, while all children succeeded in both comprehension tasks and in model drawing, more MSES children were classified as representational drawers.