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The effect of electronic books on enhancing emergent literacy skills of pre-school children

 
الكاتب/ة الباحث/ة
Dr Fathi Ihmeideh
الناشر/المؤسسة
ELSEVIER
تاريخ الإصدار
2014
الدولة
الأردن
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of e-books on enhancing Jordanian preschool children's emergent literacy skills (experimental group), in comparison to children who were exposed to regular printed books (control group). To achieve the objectives of this study, the total of 92 children were assigned to either experimental group (n 1⁄4 48) and control group (n 1⁄4 44). The pre- and post-test data was collected on print awareness, vocabulary, alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness skills to determine the effectiveness of e-books. The results indicated that children in experimental group performed significantly better than the children in control group. Moreover, significant differ- ences were found according to gender, as the female children exhibited superior emergent literacy skills to the male children. Regarding the different emergent literacy skills, children in the experi- mental group achieved better improvement in the areas of print awareness and vocabulary. Based on these findings, it is recommended that pre-school institutions incorporate e-books activities into their classrooms.