兒童繪本與心智理論的發展：從麥兜到三隻小豬的真實故事

本文通過介紹兒童心智理論的發展和分析兒童繪本的心智意義，指出成人與兒童共讀繪本是促進兒童心智解讀發展的重要途徑。兒童繪本有豐富的心智內容，難度適當的繪本為兒童提供了心智解讀的最近發展區。成人可以利用繪本通過畫面線索來表達看不到摸不著的心智過程的特點，通過與兒童的分享閱讀，為兒童心智發展提供鷹架作用。文中對繪本共讀中的對話和提問技巧做了總結，並有選擇性地對坊間的兒童繪本作了心智理論的文本分析。
Based on the introduction of theory of mind development and the analysis of the children’s picture books’ mental meaning, the present paper argues that joint reading of children’s picture book between adults and children has great implications in facilitating children’s theory of mind development. Children’s picture book is rich in mental discourse. Appropriately chosen picture books provide a zone of proximal development for children’s mental understanding. Through joint reading, adults could utilize the visual clues of the invisible mental processes presented in picture books to scaffold children’s theory of mind development. The paper also discusses the conversation and questioning skills in picture book joint reading, as well as selectively analyzes mental discourse in children’s picture books available in the market. Copyright © 2010 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.