Children's cognitive effort and fluency in writing: Effects of genre and of handwriting automatisation

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• 作者：Thierry Olive ; Monik Favart ; Caroline Beauvais ; Lucie Beauvais
• 关键词：Text writing ; Cognitive effort ; Genre knowledge ; Handwriting
• 刊名：Learning and Instruction
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：August 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：19
• 期：4
• 页码：299-308
• 全文大小：219 K

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This study investigated the cognitive effort of 5th and 9th graders while writing a text. We manipulated genre (narrative text vs. argumentative text) and tested how level of handwriting automatisation contributes to cognitive effort and fluency in writing. The participants were 23 students from Grade 5 and 21 from Grade 9, who wrote two texts differing in genre while performing a secondary reaction time task. The results showed that cognitive effort interacted with genre. Cognitive effort decreased between Grades 5 and 9 only for writing argumentative text. Handwriting did not contribute to fluency in writing, but contributed to cognitive effort only in 5th-graders' writing of narrative text. The findings are discussed in light of the factors contributing to cognitive effort and fluency in writing.