Development and Acquisition

This page has works relating to studies of children and their acquisition of visual language and text/image multimodality.

If you have any works to add, please email me.

Brooks, Penelope H. 1977. The Role of Action Lines in Children's Memory for Pictures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Vol. 23, p. 98-107

Cohn, Neil. 2003. Early Writings on Visual Language. Berkeley, CA: Emaki Productions

Cox, Maureen V., Masuo Koyasu, Hiromasa Hiranuma, and Julian Perara. 2001. Children’s human figure drawings in the UK and Japan: The effects of age, sex, and culture. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 19:275-292.

Friedman, Sarah L.,and Stevenson, Marguerite B. 1975. Developmental Changes in the Understanding of Implied Motion in Two-dimensional Pictures. Child Development, Vol. 46, p. 773-778

Gross, Dana, et. al. 1991. Children’s Understanding of Action Lines and the Static Representation of Speed of Locomotion. Child Development, Vol. 62, p. 1124-1141

Liddell, Christine.1997. Every Picture Tells a Story—or Does It?: Young South African Children Interpreting Pictures.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 28.3. Pp. 266-83.

Nakazawa, Jun. 2002. Analysis of manga (comic) reading processes: Manga literacy and eye movement during Manga reading. Manga Studies 5:39-49.

Nakazawa, Jun. 2002. Effects of manga reading comprehension ability on children's learning by manga materials. Research on Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities 9:13-23.

Nakazawa, Jun. 2004. Manga (comic) literacy skills as determinant factors of manga story comprehension. Manga Studies 5:7-25.

Nakazawa, Jun. 2005. Development of Manga (Comic Book) Literacy in Children. In Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, edited by D. W. Shwalb, J. Nakazawa and B. J. Shwalb. Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing.

Nakazawa, Jun, and Sayuri Nakazawa. 1993. How Children Understand Comics?: Analysis of comic reading comprehension. Annual of Research in Early Childhood 15:35-39.

Nakazawa, Jun, and Sayuri Nakazawa. 1993. Development of manga reading comprehension: How do children understand manga? In Manga and child: How do children understand manga?, edited by Y. Akashi: Research report of Gendai Jidobunka Kenkyukai.

Pallenik, Michael J. 1986. A Gunman in Town! Children Interpret a Comic Book. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 3, No. 1. Pp. 38-51

Smith, Nancy R. 1985. Copying and Artistic Behaviors: Children and Comic Strips. Studies in Art Education.Vol. 26(3). Pp. 147-156

Toku, Masami. 2001. What is Manga?: The Influence of Pop Culture in Adolescent Art. In Journal of National Art Education, March 2001. New Jersey: The National Art Education Association

Toku, Masami. 2002. Children’s Artistic and Aesthetic Development: The Influence of Pop-Culture in Children’s Drawings. Paper presented at 31st INSEA Convention, New York

Toku, Masami. 2002. Cross-Cultural Analysis of Artistic Development: Drawing by Japanese and U.S. children. Visual Arts Research, Vol. 27, p. 46-59. Illinois: University of Illinois Press

Wellman, Henry M., Hollander, Michelle, and Schult, Carolyn A. 1996. Young Children’s Understanding of Thought Bubbles and Thoughts. Child Development, Vol. 67, p. 768-788

Wellman, Henry M, et al. 2002. Thought-bubbles help children with autism acquire an alternative to a theory of mind. Autism, Vol. 6, No. 4, p. 343

Wilkins, David P. 1997. Alternative Representations of Space: Arrernte Narratives in Sand. In Biemans, M., and van de Weijer, J. (Eds), Proceedings of the CLS Opening Academic Year ’97 ’98. Center for Language Studies

Wilson, Brent, and Marjorie Wilson. 1977 "An Iconoclastic View of the Imagery Sources in the Drawings of Young People." Art Education, Vol. 30.1, Pp.4-12.

Wilson, Brent, and Marjorie Wilson. 1987. Pictorial Composition and Narrative Structure: Themes and the Creation of Meaning in the Drawings of Egyptian and Japanese Children. Visual Arts Research, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Issue 26). Illinois: University of Illinois

Wilson Brent. 1988. The Artistic Tower of Babel: Inextricable Links Between Culture and Graphic Development. In Hardiman, George W. and Zernich, Theodore (Eds), Discerning Art: Concepts and Issues. Champaign, Illinois: Stipes Publishing Company

Wilson, Brent. 2000. Becoming Japanese: Manga, Children’s Drawings, and the Construction of National Character.Visual Arts Research, Vol. 25.2. pp. 48-60.

Yannicopoulou, Angela. 2004. Visual Aspects of Written Texts: Preschoolers View Comics. L1- Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 4, pp. 169-181

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