TY - JOUR
T1 - Guidance in storytelling tables supports emotional development in kindergartners
AU - Catala, Alejandro
AU - Gijlers, Hannie
AU - Visser, Iris
N1 - Funding Information:
Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This work has partially been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under Juan de la Cierva programme (IJC2018–037522-I). The writing of this work has received financial support from the Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional (accreditation 2019–2022 ED431G-2019/04, reference ED431C2022/19) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Promoting the social-emotional development of kindergartners is of special relevance as will lay the foundations for emotion regulation in later childhood and adulthood stages. Considering that tangible storytelling tables are already used for language and literacy skills in kindergarten, we addressed the problem of designing a storytelling intervention aimed at social-emotional development suitable in such a context by using an emotional laden story as content and embedding a guidance method that can be implemented with either a human or robot guide to enhance the learning setting. The study considered two guided storytelling activities (one traditional guided by the teacher, and one in which guidance was provided by a robot) and a control condition without additional guidance. The three conditions were compared in terms of kindergartners’ enactment process, an emotion recognition test and a story recall test. The results show that the guidance method properly supported emotion naming, children involvement and goal completion during the storytelling activity whereas the intervention supported the learning gain on emotion recognition. The study revealed that both robot and human guidance did not differ significantly in the performance tests but did outperform the control. In view of the results, this research is helpful for researchers and teachers to create in an informed way a range of environments in the kindergarten class based on storytelling tables, either with or without guidance, and with or without robot support. Future work may further investigate how specific interaction issues concerning robot embodiment (e.g., voice and behavioral cues to direct children’s attention) might enhance or not the children’s performance.
AB - Promoting the social-emotional development of kindergartners is of special relevance as will lay the foundations for emotion regulation in later childhood and adulthood stages. Considering that tangible storytelling tables are already used for language and literacy skills in kindergarten, we addressed the problem of designing a storytelling intervention aimed at social-emotional development suitable in such a context by using an emotional laden story as content and embedding a guidance method that can be implemented with either a human or robot guide to enhance the learning setting. The study considered two guided storytelling activities (one traditional guided by the teacher, and one in which guidance was provided by a robot) and a control condition without additional guidance. The three conditions were compared in terms of kindergartners’ enactment process, an emotion recognition test and a story recall test. The results show that the guidance method properly supported emotion naming, children involvement and goal completion during the storytelling activity whereas the intervention supported the learning gain on emotion recognition. The study revealed that both robot and human guidance did not differ significantly in the performance tests but did outperform the control. In view of the results, this research is helpful for researchers and teachers to create in an informed way a range of environments in the kindergarten class based on storytelling tables, either with or without guidance, and with or without robot support. Future work may further investigate how specific interaction issues concerning robot embodiment (e.g., voice and behavioral cues to direct children’s attention) might enhance or not the children’s performance.
KW - Emotional development
KW - Guidance
KW - Instruction method
KW - Kindergartners
KW - Robot
KW - Technology enhanced storytelling
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U2 - 10.1007/s11042-022-14049-7
DO - 10.1007/s11042-022-14049-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140916941
SN - 1380-7501
VL - 82
SP - 12907
EP - 12937
JO - Multimedia tools and applications
JF - Multimedia tools and applications
ER -