Can the computer replace the adult for storybook reading? A meta-analysis on the effects of multimedia stories as compared to sharing print stories with an adult

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Takacs, Zsofia K ^a   Swart, Elise K ^a   Bus, Adriana G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult child book sharing; Electronic books; Meta analysis; Multimedia storybooks; Story comprehension; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923367244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01366     Document Type: Article

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