The present study provides experimental evidence regarding 4-6-year-old children's visual processing of animated versus static illustrations in storybooks. Thirty nine participants listened to an animated and a static book, both three times, while eye movements were registered with an eye-tracker. Outcomes corroborate the hypothesis that specifically motion is what attracts children's attention...

This poster introduces two pilot studies on children’s story reading and retelling using interactive media that move beyond familiar keyboard and mouse interaction. These studies formed a subset of investigations into the potential for Augmented Reality (AR) story books to engage and motivate story reading using familiar and easy to set-up technologies. We contrasted AR with two other media and...

The design and content of the planning library of a story generation system dictates the content quality of the story it produces. This paper presents the story planner component of Picture Books, a system that generates stories for children aged 4 to 6 years based on a set of picture elements selected by the user. The planning library separates the design for the story patterns from the design...

The quality of language produced is greatly influenced by the input. Reading a major source and knowledge In Pakistan, two types books written in English are available for reader. first type includes published Pakistan second foreign authors or outside Pakistan. purpose this study was to analyze 5 story-books linguistic analysis technical were carried out explore kind material which being local...

The present study was conducted with the main purpose of identifying reading preferences of secondary school students and their related issues. The study was conducted on a total of 387 secondary school students of academic session 2010-12 in District Bahawalpur of Pakistan. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through questionnaire and interview schedule respectively by adopting su...

In 1999, Cerebrum published a list of books about the brain, guiding regular readers to ―the great books, past and present, that capture the unfolding story of the brain and how brain research is changing our ideas about memory and emotion, life span and language, neurological disorders and psychiatric syndromes.‖ Eleven years later, the need for such a list is even greater—more than 30,000 bra...

Picture books are profusely illustrated books in which the illustrations are, to varying degrees, essential to the en joyment and understanding of the story (Tomlinson and Lynch-Brown, 1996). As the most characteristic form of children’s literature (Nodelman, 1996), picture books hold a prominent place in children’s literature because of the juxtaposition of pictures and words. Thanks to the pu...