---
_id: '57465'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p>Shy children are characterised by reserved communicative behaviour,
    especially in novel situations or when interacting with unfamiliar interlocutors.
    Many of the contextual elicitors that trigger typical patterns of shyness reactions
    in children, such as gaze aversion, a more distant approach, or general hesitation,
    may be present in typical laboratory settings or in standardised testing situations,
    for example, language assessment tests. In our chapter, we review recent studies
    that operationalise shy children’s communicative behaviour at verbal and nonverbal
    levels with different social partners, such as humans or social robots, as interaction
    partners, providing practitioners with a sound overview of communicative signals
    that are challenging to capture and measure in practical settings. From this,
    we derive critical implications for the design of testing situations for children
    that allow them to unfold their communicative potential and demonstrate their
    linguistic competence, taking into account their individual temperamental characteristics.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Franziska E.
  full_name: Viertel, Franziska E.
  last_name: Viertel
- first_name: Nils Frederik
  full_name: Tolksdorf, Nils Frederik
  id: '43289'
  last_name: Tolksdorf
  orcid: 0000-0001-6093-1219
citation:
  ama: 'Viertel FE, Tolksdorf NF. Multimodal Communicative Behaviours in Shy Children
    in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts. In: <i>Contemporary Issues
    in Early Childhood Education and Care</i>. IntechOpen; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668">10.5772/intechopen.1007668</a>'
  apa: Viertel, F. E., &#38; Tolksdorf, N. F. (2024). Multimodal Communicative Behaviours
    in Shy Children in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts. In <i>Contemporary
    Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care</i>. IntechOpen. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668">https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668</a>
  bibtex: '@inbook{Viertel_Tolksdorf_2024, title={Multimodal Communicative Behaviours
    in Shy Children in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts}, DOI={<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668">10.5772/intechopen.1007668</a>},
    booktitle={Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care}, publisher={IntechOpen},
    author={Viertel, Franziska E. and Tolksdorf, Nils Frederik}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Viertel, Franziska E., and Nils Frederik Tolksdorf. “Multimodal Communicative
    Behaviours in Shy Children in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts.”
    In <i>Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care</i>. IntechOpen,
    2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668">https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668</a>.
  ieee: F. E. Viertel and N. F. Tolksdorf, “Multimodal Communicative Behaviours in
    Shy Children in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts,” in <i>Contemporary
    Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care</i>, IntechOpen, 2024.
  mla: Viertel, Franziska E., and Nils Frederik Tolksdorf. “Multimodal Communicative
    Behaviours in Shy Children in Assessment Situations and Social Evaluative Contexts.”
    <i>Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care</i>, IntechOpen,
    2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007668">10.5772/intechopen.1007668</a>.
  short: 'F.E. Viertel, N.F. Tolksdorf, in: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
    Education and Care, IntechOpen, 2024.'
date_created: 2024-11-28T08:32:09Z
date_updated: 2024-11-28T08:41:58Z
department:
- _id: '115'
doi: 10.5772/intechopen.1007668
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care
publication_status: published
publisher: IntechOpen
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Multimodal Communicative Behaviours in Shy Children in Assessment Situations
  and Social Evaluative Contexts
type: book_chapter
user_id: '43289'
year: '2024'
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