We compared learning from two types of bilingual book materials: single‐language books and bilingual books. Five‐year‐old English‐French bilinguals (n = 67) were randomly assigned to hear an original story from a balanced bilingual experimenter in one of the two book formats. Children's ...
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With this aim, 102 4- to 5-year-old preschoolers in Singapore were assigned to one of four conditions: (a) animated eBooks (+sound+motion), (b) static eBooks with sound, (c) static eBooks only, and (d) a control condition where children played a math game on an iPad. Three ...
Presents a critique of bilingual Spanish-English books of poetry entitled `Let's Go Down to the Beach: Poems and Translations,' by William Lawlor and `My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems,' by Ana Castillo. Lawlor's selection of Caribbean pieces to highlight his own poetic interests;...
After discussing the use of bilingual books, the following four themes emerged from the data: families negotiating biliteracy using bilingual books, the role of Spanish, siblings and literacy learning, families negotiating resources for literacy and interacting with schools....
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Comparing electronic and paper storybooks for preschoolers: Attention, engagement, and recall Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 48 (2017), pp. 92-102 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Rideout & Robb, 2020 V. Rideout, M.B. Robb The Common Sense census: Media use by...
(i.e., family and preschool factors) are relatively more important than child characteristics in enhancing bilingual children's HL vocabulary growth. Specifically, children's language input quantity (i.e., home language dominance), input quality (e.g., number of books in HL), and HL input ...
Speech Production, Perception and Input of Simultaneous Bilingual Preschoolers: Evidence From Voice Onset Time Radboud University and International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences (2018) Doctoral Dissertation Google Scholar Stoehr et al., 2018 A. Stoehr, T. Benders, J. van Hell, P....
the park, the farm, the amusement park and more locations can light up your child’s world and spur their imagination. Ten touch-sensitive locations on each page teach about words, colors and counting in the ...