14.034 - Exploring Young Children's Experiences With Multimodal Text

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Young children are living in an increasingly digital society. However, we have limited understanding of how young children actually engage with multimodal text (involving images, sounds, animation, spoken and written language etc.) to making meaning jointly with their parents or peers. To address this gap in the literature, the contributors examined different forms of children’s engagement with multimodal texts, including infants joint-reading with parents, preschoolers’ play with apps, kindergartners’ buddy reading of iPad app books, and kindergartners’ play with multimodal text. Findings provide much needed understanding about young children’s engagement with multimodal text and suggests ways to improve design of digital texts and support productive reading with multimodal text.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Chair

• X. Christine Wang, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Papers

• E-Book Versus Print Book: A Study of Parent–Infant Social Interactions Through Shared Reading - Corinne Eggleston, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah Weber, Fisher-Price, Inc.

• Preschoolers' iPad-Mediated Play Interactions: Affordances of Dialogic Applications - Andrea Tochelli, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Reading and Meaning-Construction Approaches: Kindergartners' Buddy Reading With iPad App Books - Tanya M. Christ, Oakland University; X. Christine Wang, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Hands-On and Minds-On Play: Kindergarteners' Buddy Reading on iPads - X. Christine Wang, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Tanya M. Christ, Oakland University

Discussant

• Lynn Shanahan, University at Buffalo - SUNY