Children's understanding process of picture books from an elementary school English educational perspective

首先，一个好的英文图画书读者可以使用各种策略来理解故事，包括不仅听英语单词的声音，而且还要看图片，运用背景知识和猜测能力。其次，我们调查了母子互动，发现孩子说话能力高的母亲表现出三个明显的话语特征：(1)快速反应时间，(2)短话语长度，(3)对孩子的直接引语速度慢。因此，这些孩子的母亲阅读图画书的方法可以更有效地培养孩子们阅读英语图画书的能力。

First, a good reader of English picture books can understand the stories using various kinds of strategies, including not only listening to English word sounds, but also looking at the pictures, using back world knowledge and guessing ability. On the other hand, a poor reader is likely to concentrate on only the pictures, and is unable to exploit hints or employ other strategies well.Second, we investigated mother-child interaction, and found that mothers whose children's speaking ability is high exhibit three distinctive utterance features :(1) rapid response timing,(2) short utterance length, and(3) slow direct speech to their children. Consequently, the approach to reading picture books by the mothers of such children can foster the children's ability to understand picture books written in English more effectively.