49 article "Pen or keyboard in beginning writing instruction? Some perspectives from embodied cognition"

Name : Nurmala Eka Putri
Npm : 16611025

Pen or keyboard in beginning writing instruction? Some perspectives from embodied cognition.

In this article they discuss about perspectives from embodied cognition. If reading and writing are increasingly digited at all levels of education, and in beginning writing instruction, children are often introduced to writing by pen and paper handwriting. Bu reference to extant research particulary addresing the motor component of  writing and drawing on key theoretical insights of embodied cognition, they address the role of the material affordances and sensorimotor contingencies of keyboards and handwriting implements in the development of basic writing skills.