Authors examined age differences in children's storytelling between the third and sixth year of age and the effect of different factors on storytelling. They established important age differences in storytelling in early childhhod. Parental education and shared reading proved to be important factors of child's storytelling. Girls told longer stories than boys but they didn't differ in the content structure of their stories.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44335970
The author considers literacy as the child's individual mental process which develops in a social context and has the its roots in early literacy. The reconceptualization of literacy is supported by sociocultural and psycholingvistic theory and with the empirical evidence on cognitive and language development. A special attention is payed to the explaination of the positive effect of different components of child's language on the development of the early literacy and the effect of different contexts and activities in the family or preschool on literacy development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 247200