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Title:
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MULTIMEDIA STORY-TELLING: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIVING BOOKS TO INCIDENTAL LEARNING |
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Author(s):
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Yoram Eshet |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Living books; incidental learning; multimedia; language acquisition; storey-telling. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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144 |
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Last Page:
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148 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The story-telling multimedia Living Book is one of the most common edutainment genres, in which children hear and
play with interactive and animated stories, in a highly-engaging multimedia environment. Living Books are designed so
that that every word of the story is projected as text on the computer monitor simultaneously with its narration. This
enables users to integrate between the audio and textual representation of words and thus to learn their pronunciation and
understand their meaning.
The present paper presents results of a study which showed that young children who did not know how to speak or read
the English language became proficient in pronunciation and gained a high level of understanding by playing with Living
Books. Results show that the participants were able to correctly pronounce almost 70% of the words in the Living Book,
and could identify the meaning of about 70% of them. On the other hand, it was found that they were able to read words
as orthographic units but not to identify individual letters (average of 7.4%). Our findings point to the potential for
incidental learning in highly-interactive, engaging and playful multimedia environments, such as Living Books. |
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