eBooks' Interactive Features Are Not Always Helpful for Reading Comprehension
Research from Heather Ruetschlin Schugar and Jordan T. Schugar of West Chester University are pointing to troublesome features of eBooks – mainly that they provide too much stimulation without enough reading compression.
While some books such as Miss Spider’s Tea Party, provide positive reinforcing stimulants, such as the sound of tea drinking- others, like Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure, simply distract children with gimmicky features of moving objects and disconnected sounds.
The findings were presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia.
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