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affected entrepreneurial judgments. Both geometric mean hypothesis and causal relation effect
hypothesis were tested with framework of decision competency model. Implications of results to
multiple judgment modeling and entrepreneurial decision competence development are
highlighted.
3136 ORAL
Language, reading and communication
Chair: Pi-hua Tsai, Taiwan, China
3136.1 The development of causal reasoning of mandarin-speaking children in narratives,
Pi-hua Tsai, Hsin-feng Wu, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, China
Children construct theories of the world around them largely through causal explanations. This
research explored how Mandarin-speaking children explained the activities of various entities in
narratives through a variety of distinctive causal-explanatory modes. Children’s utterances of
spontaneous narratives were analyzed first. A quasi-experiment was then conducted with 36
children aged from 2 to 5; who were asked to tell a story from a picture book. The results showed
that Mandarin-speaking children tended to use more social-conventional explanatory mode and
that they adopted various strategies to justify their explanations. Implications for storytelling
practices to preschoolers were also proposed.
3136.2 Re-examining the auditory temporal processing theory of dyslexia using the auditory
saltation illusion, Joanna Kidd, John Hogben, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Auditory saltation is an illusory motion percept that occurs when multiple stimuli are rapidly
presented first to one ear, then the other. Existing evidence suggests the temporal boundaries of
saltation are longer in dyslexia, possibly because of deficits in Auditory Temporal Processing
(ATP). In this study, we used an objective psychophysical technique to investigate the relationship
of saltation to reading and phonological processing in adults and children. Contrary to the ATP
hypothesis, neither strong nor significant relationships were found. The importance of examining
the characteristics of control groups, examining the development of psychoacoustic task
performance, and using objective methods, are emphasized.
3136.3 The influences of balanced reading instruction on the vocational high school students’
word recognition ability and reading motivation, Yea-mei Leou, Hsiu-Shuang Huang, National
Tainan Teachers’ College Taiwan, China
Realizing the vocational high school students’ low English reading ability and reading motivation,
the researchers designed a curriculum of balanced reading instruction and explored its influences
on students. The research sample was 66 vocational high school students. The researchers used
WRAT3 as a tool to test the change of reading achievement and MRQ as a tool to test the change
of reading motivation. The results showed that the experimental group was significant higher than
the controlled group in the aspect of reading motivation and reading aspect after the teaching, but
there was no significant difference in spelling aspect between the two groups.
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