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8Keywords: COVID-19, positive side of the pandemic, mental health
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PERCEPTIONS BY SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN OF THE HEROES OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN CARTOONS
Lidiya Matveeva
Professor, Lomonosov Moscow state university, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: matweewa-com@yandex.ru
Tatiana Anikeeva
Senior researcher, Lomonosov Moscow state university, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: anikeeva-07@mail.ru
Ylia Mochalova
Research associate, Lomonosov Moscow state university, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: vassom@mail.ru
Abstract: Perceptions by school-age children of the heroes of domestic and foreign cartoons Matveeva L.V., Anikeeva T.Y., Mochalova Y.V. Moscow. The objective of the study was to investigate the impact of the modern media entertainment discourse on children and to conduct a comparative analysis of the perceptions of school-age children of the heroes of domestic and foreign cartoons, based on screening domestic and foreign fairy tales with similar plots. The study was conducted using methods of psychosemantic scaling and subsequent factorization of data. The factor structures revealed during the study reproduced the semantic spaces of consciousness of schoolchildren who were viewers of the Russian cartoon "The Frog Princess" and the American "The Princess and the Frog", as well as the Russian cartoon "The Scarlet Flower" and the American "Beauty and the Beast", each with similar fairytale plots. The study involved 40 adolescents from 13 to 16 years old (23 boys and 17 girls). Only six factors were identified, the total variance of the data was 70.9%. Factor 1 - moral and ethical 19.8%, 2 -charismatic 17.8%, 3 - strength, courage, and sociability 12.9%, 4 - psychological distance 7.7%, 5 - the dangers of behavior 7.1%, 6 - cunning and intelligence 5.7%. Significant differences in the perception of the characters' images were obtained by the first, second, fourth and sixth factors. In conclusion, it was possible to state differences between schoolchildren's perceptions of cartoon heroes from different cultural traditions.
Keywords: media discourse, teenagers, the scenario of a fairy tale, he heroes of domestic and foreign cartoons, the psychosomatics method, differences in perception
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COVID-19 FIRST LOCKDOWN AS A UNIQUE WINDOW INTO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: WHAT YOU DO
(WITH YOUR CHILD) MATTERS
Natalia Kartushina
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of
Oslo, Norway; e-mail: natalia.kartushina@iln.uio.no
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children's learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provided a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children's language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 13 countries and 12 languages were
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