Comparison of the Effect of Oral Storytelling and Parde-khani [Illustrated storytelling] in Preschool Girl's Narratives

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of oral storytelling and reading on the characteristics of narratives of preschool girl children. For this purpose, 24 pre-school girl students were selected as the sample of the study using a pretest-posttest research design with unequal groups. The subjects were randomly assigned into two groups through TOLD (Hamil & Newcomer, 1997): For the first group, the folk tale "Crow and the Farmer", from the series of Mohtadi Morning Tales (2008), was presented orally and for the second group, the same story was presented in the form of Parde-khani [illustrated storytelling]. In the post-test phase, each childchr('39')s recounted narratives were recorded and transcribed. Narratives in both groups were analyzed based on the frequency of story elements, the sequence of these elements, the relative frequency of the grammatical elements, the length of the narrative in terms of number of sentences and words, as well as the consistency of the narratives with the main narrative in three dimensions: deletion, addition, and inaccuracy. Based on the results of the content analysis, the lengths of narratives (number of words and sentences) and relative frequency of grammatical elements in the recounted narratives of children were significantly higher in the oral storytelling group than the reading group. But the frequency and sequence of story elements and narrative adaptation were not significantly different.