Shared Book Reading and Word Learning in Preschool Children

Word learning and phonetic processing in preschool-age children.

Consonants and vowels have been shown to play different relative roles in different processes, including retrieving known words from pseudowords during adulthood or simultaneously learning two phonetically similar pseudowords during infancy or toddlerhood. The current study explores the extent to which French-speaking 3- to 5-year-olds exhibit a so-called "consonant bias" in a task simulating w...

Parent-Child Shared Book Reading Quality versus Quantity of Reading Interactions between Parents and Young Children

The home literacy environment has an important role in young children’s emerging literacy and social-emotional development. An emphasis has been placed on storybook reading at home. However, it has been unclear how often (quantity) storybook reading should occur or how parents should interact (quality) with their young child while reading together. Results revealed the importance and role that ...

Fun Learning with AR Alphabet Book for Preschool Children

This paper describes the design and evaluation of an AR alphabet book, an Augmented Reality based book for teaching the alphabet to preschool children. Used together with camera and computer, children could view the superimposed virtual alphabet in a fun and interactive manner using the pattern markers as an interaction tool. Generally, teaching young children could be difficult this is due to ...

Running Head: PRESCHOOL WORD LEARNING Understanding Word Learning by Preschool Children: Insights from Multiple Tasks, Stimulus Characteristics, and Error Analysis

Beyond the Pages of a Book: Interactive Book Reading and Language Development in Preschool Classrooms

The effects of a book reading technique called interactive book reading on the language and literacy development of 4-year-olds from low-income families were evaluated. Teachers read books to children and reinforced the vocabulary in the books by presenting concrete objects that represented the words and by providing children with multiple opportunities to use the book-related words. The teache...