Reading a Story: Different Degrees of Learning in Different Learning Environments.

ABSTRACT: The learning environment in which material is acquired may produce differences in delayed recall and in the elements that individuals focus on. These differences may appear even during development. In the present study, we compared three different learning environments in 450 normally developing 7-year-old children subdivided into three groups according to the type of learning environment. Specifically, children were asked to learn the same material shown in three different learning environments: reading illustrated books (TB); interacting with the same text displayed on a PC monitor and enriched with interactive activities (PC-IA); reading the same text on a PC monitor but not enriched with interactive narratives (PC-NoIA). Our results demonstrated that TB and PC-NoIA elicited better verb

SUBMITTER: Giannini AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5649183 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature