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2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Early development of notational activities and knowledge : developmental factors

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16530421
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Educational psychology
Research InstitutionKanazawa University

Principal Investigator

YAMAGATA Kyoko  Kanazawa University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (20085963)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Keywordsnotational knowledge / notational activities / early development / picture book / writing and reading / classification task / production and understanding task / informal instruction
Research Abstract

This study investigated the early development of notational activities and knowledge, and the factors influencing this development in 2 6-year-olds, using production (drawing and writing), picture-book comprehension, classification, and letter-reading tasks.
1. The results of the production task showed that, despite results from previous studies demonstrating domain-specific notational knowledge in children older than 4, even 2-year-olds produced different marks for drawing and writing and had domain-specific knowledge. However, because our study also indicated that notational activities and knowledge developed with age and that drawing preceded writing developmentally, we sought an alternative explanation for these findings.
2. In the picture-book task, we revised the Concepts about Print test (Clay, 1979) to design tasks for evaluating the developmental process of children's acquiring procedural knowledge of picture books and of reading, letter notation, and story comprehension. Althou … More gh two-year-old children had the procedural knowledge for using a picture book and understood the story, their procedural knowledge of reading and knowledge of letter notation increased with age and correlated significantly with their ability to read letters.
3. In the classification task, we examined the developmental process of understanding 13 types of perceptual-formal/orthographic information. The results revealed three stages in the development of understanding this knowledge : (1) 4-year-olds can understand perceptual-formal types of information, (2) 5-year-olds understand spatial, orientation, and word-component information, and (3) after age 6, an understanding of Japanese orthographic information occurs. The partial correlations were significant between the letter-reading ability and the knowledge of spatial, orientation, and word components for 5 year olds, and between the letter-reading ability and Japanese orthographic knowledge for 4-or 6-year-olds. These findings suggest there are several factors related to the development of notational activities and comprehension. Less

  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2007 2006 2005 2004

All Journal Article (16 results)

  • [Journal Article] Differential emergence of representational systems : Drawings, letters, and numerals.2007

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Development (印刷中)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 家庭におけるインフォーマルな表記・絵本活動の調査研究2007

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本発達心理学会第18回大会発表論文集 18

      Pages: 385

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Differential emergence of representational systems : Drawings, letters, and numerals.2007

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Development

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Informal notational and picture-book reading activities at Home.2007

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 18th Annual Convention of Japanese Association of Developmental Psychology 154

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 表記知識の諸特性に関する理解の発達(1)-年長児における分析-2006

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本心理学会第70回大会発表論文集 70

      Pages: 1099

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 絵本にみる表記知識の初期発達(2)-年長児における「絵本知識課題」の作成-2006

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本教育心理学会第48回総会発表論文集 48

      Pages: 389

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Development of understanding on the properties of notational knowledge (1)2006

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 70th Annual Convention of Japanese Psychological Association 1099

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Early development of notational knowledge in picture book (2)2006

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Japanese Association of Educational Psychology 389

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 絵本に見る表記知識の初期発達(1)-年少児用「絵本知識テスト」作成の試みを通じて-2005

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本教育心理学会第47回総会発表論文集 47

      Pages: 14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] シンボル・表記知識の発生過程に関する分析-年少幼児の描画・文字の産出活動-2005

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本心理学会第69回大会発表論文集 69

      Pages: 1192

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 産出課題におけるシンボル・表記知識の初期発達-分類による分化過程の分析-2005

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本発達心理学会第16回大会発表論文集 16

      Pages: 313

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Early development of notational knowledge in picture book (1)2005

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 47th Annual Convention of Japanese Association of Educational Psychology 14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Emergence of symbolic and notational knowledge : Productions of drawing and writing.2005

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 69th Annual Convention of Japanese Psychological Association 1192

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 絵・数・文字の初期表記活動・表記行為の発達-"かき"の運動制御発達-2004

    • Author(s)
      山形恭子
    • Journal Title

      日本教育心理学会第46回総会発表論文集 46

      Pages: 115

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Early development of symbolic and notational knowledge : Production tasks2004

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 16th Annual Convention of Japanese Association of Developmental Psychology 313

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Early development of notational activities and actions : Motor regulation2004

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamagata
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 46th Annual Convention of Japanese Association of Educational Psychology 115

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27  

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