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Liman Kaban, Aysegül; Karadeniz, Sirin – SAGE Open, 2021
The young generation, born into digital technologies and called Millennials or the Y-Generation, are raised in a world where everybody has a computer in their pockets (Hamari et al., 2014), and they are constantly engaged in digital activities. However, research on the impact of digital devices on learners' educational performance and motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension
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van Druten-Frietman, Loes; Strating, Heleen; Denessen, Eddie; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
A dialogic storybook-based intervention integrating dialogic storybook reading with early literacy activities is studied with a longitudinal quasi-experimental study design. The effects of this intervention, in addition to a regular early childhood education (ECE) program, on kindergartners' vocabulary and phonological awareness development are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Kindergarten, Intervention, Books
Behjat, Fatemeh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2013
A blog is an innovative web tool which has an immense potential to enhance language abilities. As one of the ways to enhance foreign language learning is collaboration and interaction, the present study is an attempt to find out if blogs can be used to foster language learners' comprehension through collaborative book reading. To this end, 62…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Kozminsky, Ely; Asher-Sadon, Revital – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2013
Traditionally, children's books are in a printed format and shared book reading is done with an adult. In recent years, interactive E-books have become a common medium for children's books and shared book reading is diminishing. This study compared the contribution of book format to the development of literacy in kindergarten children. We…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials, Books, Childrens Literature
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Korat, Ofra; Shamir, Adina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
We examine the effect of direct and indirect teaching of vocabulary and word reading on pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children following use of an electronic storybook (e-book). The children in each age group were randomly assigned to an intervention group which read the e-book or to a control group which was afforded the regular school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Kindergarten, Reading Instruction
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Korat, Ofra – Computers & Education, 2010
The effect of reading an electronic storybook (e-book) on Israeli children's language and literacy was examined in kindergarten children (N = 40; age 5:2-6:3) compared to first graders (N = 50; age 6:3-7:4). The children in each age group were randomly assigned to two groups: an intervention group which read the e-book five times and a control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Tuckwiller, Elizabeth D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the response of kindergarten students at-risk for reading failure to a two-tiered vocabulary intervention delivered in the context of a shared storybook reading activity employing rich and robust vocabulary instruction. Rich vocabulary instruction is defined as explicit vocabulary instruction in which…
Descriptors: Research Design, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods