Narrative Potential of Picture-Book Apps: A Media- and Interaction-Oriented Study.

ABSTRACT: Digital literature is playing an increasingly important role in children's everyday lives and opening up new paths for family literacy and early childhood education. However, despite positive effects of electronic books and picture-book apps on vocabulary learning, early writing, or phonological awareness, research findings on early narrative skills are ambiguous. Particularly, there still is a research gap regarding how app materiality affects children's story understanding. Thus, based on the ViSAR model for picture-book app analysis and data stemming from 12 digital reading dyads containing German monolingual 2- to 3-year-olds and their caregivers this study assessed the narrative potential of a commercial picture-book app and how this is used in interaction. Results of the media analys

SUBMITTER: Muller-Brauers C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7738561 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature