Children's cognitive effort and fluency in writing: Effects of genre and of handwriting automatisation
Children's cognitive effort and fluency in writing: Effects of genre and of handwriting automatisation
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儿童的认知努力和写作流畅性:体裁和手写自动化的影响
DOI:
10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.05.005
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
L. Beauvais
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作者:
T. Olive;M. Favart;Carole Beauvais;L. Beauvais
This study investigated the cognitive effort of 5th and 9th graders while writing a text. We manipulated genre (narrative text vs. argumentative text) and tested how level of handwriting automatisation contributes to cognitive effort and fluency in writing. The participants were 23 students from Grade 5 and 21 from Grade 9, who wrote two texts differing in genre while performing a secondary reaction time task. The results showed that cognitive effort interacted with genre. Cognitive effort decreased between Grades 5 and 9 only for writing argumentative text. Handwriting did not contribute to fluency in writing, but contributed to cognitive effort only in 5th-graders' writing of narrative text. The findings are discussed in light of the factors contributing to cognitive effort and fluency in writing.