title: The effectiveness of using pictures in teaching young children about burn injury accidents.
abstract: This study utilized the "story grammar" approach (Stein and Glenn, 1979) to analyze the within-corpus differences in recounting of sixty 6- and 7-year-old children, specifically whether illustrations (5-factor accident sequence) were or were not resorted to as a means to assist their narration of a home accident in which a child received a burn injury from hot soup. Our investigation revealed that the message presentation strategy "combining oral and pictures" better helped young children to memorize the story content (sequence of events leading to the burn injury) than "oral only." Specifically, the content of "the dangerous objects that caused the injury", "the unsafe actions that people involved took", and "how the people involved felt about the severity of the accident" differed significantly between the two groups.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan, ROC. Electronic address: M85324179@yahoo.com.tw.
authors.forename: Hsueh-Fen
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Visual Communication Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Fang-Suey
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chien-Ju
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013624:Taiwan; D013663:Teaching
keywords: 5-Factor accident sequence; Storytelling; Young children burn injury