1st Edition
International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy The Impact of Digital Devices on Learning, Language Acquisition and Social Interaction
Introduction
Katharina J. Rohlfing and Claudia Müller-Brauers
Part 1. Learning and interaction with digital devices
Chapter 1: Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children
Adriana G. Bus, Kathleen Roskos, and Karen Burstein
Chapter 2: Cognitively activating and emotionally attuning interactions: Their relevance for language and literacy learning and teaching with digital media
Christiane Miosga
Chapter 3: Exploring Media Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings
Scarlet Schaffrath, Nicole Najemnik, and Isabel Zorn
Chapter 4: The caregiver’s role in keeping a child–robot interaction going
Katharina J. Rohlfing, Angela Grimminger, and Britta Wrede
Chapter 5: Beyond words: Children’s multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot
Nils F. Tolksdorf and Ulrich J. Mertens
Part 2. (Early) Literacy learning with digital media
Chapter 6: Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children
Astrid Wirth, Simone C. Ehmig, Lukas Heymann, and Frank Niklas
Chapter 7: A look into the future: How digital tools may advance language development
Cansu Oranç, Gökçe Elif Baykal, Junko Kanero, Aylin C. Küntay, and Tilbe Göksun
Chapter 8: Designing apps to facilitate first and second language acquisition in children
Anja Starke, Juliane Leinweber, and Ute Ritterfeld
Chapter 9: Digital children’s literature in the interplay between visuality and animation: A model for analyzing picture book apps and their potential for children’s story comprehension
Claudia Müller-Brauers, Jan M. Boelmann, Christiane Miosga, and Ines Potthast
Chapter 10: DAZonline.ch: A gallery of annotated interactive pictures for cross-situational language learning
Susanne Grassmann
Biography
Katharina J. Rohlfing is Professor of Psycholinguistics at Paderborn University, Germany.
Claudia Müller-Brauers is Professor for German Didactics at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
