title: The effect of two different visual presentation modalities on the narratives of mainstream grade 3 children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study investigated whether a dynamic visual presentation method (a soundless animated video presentation) would elicit better narratives than a static visual presentation method (a wordless picture book).
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty mainstream grade 3 children were randomly assigned to two groups and assessed with one of the visual presentation methods. Narrative performance was measured in terms of micro- and macrostructure variables. Microstructure variables included productivity (total number of words, total number of T-units), syntactic complexity (mean length of T-unit) and lexical diversity measures (number of different words). Macrostructure variables included episodic structure in terms of goal-attempt-outcome (GAO) sequences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both visual presentation modalities elicited narratives of similar quantity and quality in terms of the micro- and macrostructure variables that were investigated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Animation of picture stimuli did not elicit better narratives than static picture stimuli.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Klop
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Engelbrecht
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D002648:Child; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D033262:Narration; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D012016:Reference Values; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000379:methods*