Growing Up with Digital Picture Books: The Potential of Digital Apps for Dialogic Reading
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Kappeler Suter, S., Pfannes, K., Quiring, J., & Heuss, E. (2025, January 21-22). Growing Up with Digital Picture Books: The Potential of Digital Apps for Dialogic Reading [Conference Poster]. Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Early Childhood Research, Basel.
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Education, general (including training, pedagogy, didactics)
Abstract
Dialogic reading is a method of shared picture book reading that is particularly well-suited for young children in the early stages of language acquisition. In this approach, children's active communicative participation is explicitly encouraged (Whitehurst et al. 1994). A wealth of studies has demonstrated the positive effects of dialogic reading on language development (Ennemoser et al. 2013, Pillinger et al. 2022).
Children’s picture books are available not only in printed form but also as picture book apps. These formats differ in several aspects, particularly as apps often incorporate interactive elements such as hotspots, animations, sounds, and even tasks or games.
There is an ongoing debate, both in practical applications and in academic research, regarding the impact of digital picture book apps on children aged four to five. This question is central to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project "The Potential of Digital Apps for Dialogic Reading – PoDiA." Among other objectives, the project examines how digital apps, compared to traditional printed picture books, affect quality of interaction, children's engagement during shared reading interactions and early literacy skills.
This poster presentation first provides an overview of the ongoing project. Following this, it addresses the question of how the medium is considered within a multidimensional framework of factors in the project. Furthermore, the poster presentation gives an insight into the ongoing work.
Children’s picture books are available not only in printed form but also as picture book apps. These formats differ in several aspects, particularly as apps often incorporate interactive elements such as hotspots, animations, sounds, and even tasks or games.
There is an ongoing debate, both in practical applications and in academic research, regarding the impact of digital picture book apps on children aged four to five. This question is central to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project "The Potential of Digital Apps for Dialogic Reading – PoDiA." Among other objectives, the project examines how digital apps, compared to traditional printed picture books, affect quality of interaction, children's engagement during shared reading interactions and early literacy skills.
This poster presentation first provides an overview of the ongoing project. Following this, it addresses the question of how the medium is considered within a multidimensional framework of factors in the project. Furthermore, the poster presentation gives an insight into the ongoing work.
| Name of the event | Conference Host | Place of the event | Start date of the event | End date of the event |
Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Early Childhood Research | SSECR | Basel | January 21, 2025 | January 22, 2025 |
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