Producing narratives using a computer: The implementation of planning and control processes
Tóm tắt
Three groups of subjects (9–10, 13–14 year-olds, and adults) produced narratives with the help of a computer. The use of this method allowed us to show some of the characteristics of super-structural planning: the decrease in time allocated to this process during the task, and the existence of a span of between 3,70 and 5,40 sentences, according to the ages of the subjects. Control processes were studied by using the wrong choices the subjects made when they had to choose a narrative category in order to obtain a lexical items list with which to build up a sentence: 13–14 year-olds and adults often corrected their choices; and when wrong choices were not corrected, these writers were still able to compose sentences which were coherent with the remaining text. Expertise, in writing narratives, would be therefore the result of the acquisition of the narrative schema, which would itself lead to more and more flexibility in the planning and control processes involved.
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