Parent-child joint reading of digital books in bilingual families in Malta

We examined parent-child shared reading of Maltese and English e-books in four bilingual families. Analysis the participant videos, questionnaires semi-structured interview data revealed positive engagement participating families, substantiated with three main themes from participants’ accounts: balanced use print books, importance nurturing child's independence e-book use, unique value for learning, especially terms repetition. A theoretically-driven analysis video placed e-books’ affordances relation to six facets children's individual (personalized, sustained, shared, creative, affective interactive), but it needed be expanded additional joint (didactic, dialogical, self-directed experiential).