Improving Children’s Logical and Mathematical Performance via a Pragmatic Approach
| Autor: | M Bagassi, Laura Macchi, Valentina Sala, N Salerni, Laura Caravona, Francesco Poli, Valeria Castoldi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Bagassi, M, Salerni, N, Castoldi, V, Sala, V, Caravona, L, Poli, F, Macchi, L |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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task instructions
Deductive reasoning Logical reasoning pragmatic approach 05 social sciences Syllogism logical reasoning 050301 education deductive reasoning logical reasoning insight problems pragmatic approach primary school children task instructions primary school children lcsh:Education (General) 050105 experimental psychology Education Task (project management) Logical conjunction insight problems deductive reasoning Selection (linguistics) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Relevance (information retrieval) lcsh:L7-991 0503 education Meaning (linguistics) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Education, Vol 5 (2020) |
| Popis: | Deductive and logical reasoning is a crucial topic for cognitive psychology and has largely been investigated in adults, concluding that humans are apparently irrational. Yet, from a pragmatic approach, the logical level of meaning is only one of possible communicative interpretations, and the least likely to be assigned if the intent of the task is not adequately transmitted. Indeed, new formulations of the mathematical tasks (syllogisms, selection task, class inclusion task, problem solving) of greater relevance to the problem and to its aim, greatly improved adults’ logical performance. The current study tested whether pragmatic manipulations of task instructions influenced in a similar way children’s performance in deductive and logical tasks (Experiment 1) and in insight problems (Experiment 2). We found that, when task instructions were in accordance with the conversational rules of communication, 10-year-old children substantially improved their performance. We suggest that language use imposes constraints in terms of informativeness and relevance which are crucial in teaching logic and mathematics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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