Quelle représentation des différentes facettes de la dimension émotionnelle d'une histoire entre l'âge de 6 et 10 ans ? Apports d'une étude multimédia

This study examined how children between ages 6 and 10 understand and represent the different facets of the emotional dimension of a story. The idea that children's comprehension skills generalize across different media was also tested by comparing their ability to understand auditory and televised stories. Based on the exploration of their ability to represent the story passages where the emotion of the character was either explicitly mentioned, or expressed through his/her behavior, or suggested by the event described, this study highlighted three main contributions: (1) overall, children's comprehension skills generalize across different media; (2) some facets of the emotional dimension of a story were better represented from the audiovisual presentation compared to the auditory one (3) between the ages of 6 and 10 years, explicit emotional information was easier to use than implicit emotional information. These results are discussed in relation to the findings of previous studies conducted on children's understanding of story.