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标题：The Incidence of Philosophy on Discursive and Language Competence in Four-Year-Old Pupils
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作者：Marie-France Daniel ; Jean-Charles Pettier ; Emmanuèle Auriac-Slusarczyk 等
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：296-304
DOI：10.4236/ce.2011.23041
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Can philosophical dialogue foster the developmental process of certain language and discursive capabilities, such as decentering and abstraction, in four-year old children? And if so, to what extent? In this paper, the authors examine discursive and language competence in a group of four-year-old children during a four-month philosophical praxis (experimental group), compared to that of a group of five-year-old children that experienced no philosophical praxis (control group). The analysis was conducted using two instruments: 1) for discursive competence, the typology of exchanges put forward by Daniel et al. (underlying criteria include the presence/absence of a common problem to solve, centering/decentering of thinking, complexity of interventions and cognitive skills, etc.) and 2) for language competence, the language markers that emerged from the transcripts (“I”, “we”, “he – particular”, “they – general”, “you”.) These two instruments contributed to situating the children’s discourse within a process of increasing complexity related to decentering and abstraction. Results indicate that the children in the experimental group engaged in diversified exchanges (three types: anecdotal, monological, dialogical) with a predominance of the monological type and the use of language markers related to the general “they”, while the children in the control group engaged in anecdotal exchanges with a predominant use of “I”.
关键词：Discursive and Language Competence; Childhood; Argumentative Discourse; Philosophical Dialogue