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EFFECT OF PICTURES ON LEARNING TO READ COMMON NOUNS
Author(s) -
LANG R. J.,
SOLMAN R. T.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1979.tb02408.x
Subject(s) - psychology , noun , presentation (obstetrics) , word (group theory) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , radiology
S ummary . Three experiments are reported to investigate the effects of pictures on learning to read common nouns with samples of kindergarten children. Comparisons were made between three conditions: the absence of a picture, the presence of a related picture; and the presence of an unrelated picture. Using large projected images, no differences were detected. To check whether this result was attributable to the method of presentation, the experiment was repeated using word cards, with similar results. Finally, besides further manipulation of the spacing effects, a third experiment investigated the effects of drawing children's attention to the link between word and picture. It was concluded that pictorial information could be used with advantage, if the child was aware of the relationship between word and picture, and that the use of spacing did appear to facilitate learning (as a post‐hoc analysis).