AUTHOR=Bourdin Béatrice , Fayol Michel 

TITLE=Facilitating Text Production in Fourth Graders: Effects of Script-Based Knowledge and Writing Prompts

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821011

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821011

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This study set out to provide evidence that prior knowledge (semantic relatedness) and its organization (scripted versus unrelated) prompted either through pictures alone, pictures with associated words, or words only, have different impacts on several components of text produced by fourth graders. The results showed that semantic relatedness affected three dependent measures: recalled prompt words; coherence; and quality of texts. The nature of the prompts impacted on the processes of planning (number of ideas) and translating (number of propositions and length of texts). Findings, instructional applications, limitations, and proposals for future research are discussed.