The African Storybook and Storybooks Canada: Digital Stories for Linguistically Diverse Children

Socio-pleasure in Digital Storybook

This paper describes a study incorporating sociopleasure elements in digital storybook. This paper aims at demonstrating the incorporation of the aspects of socio-pleasure as suggested by the THE Medium model into the digital storybook. First, the THE Medium model is adapted in determining the aspects of socio-pleasure. Having identified the aspects, a storybook was designed and developed. Then...

Picture Storybooks Go Digital: Pros and Cons

Get the Story Straight: Contextual Repetition Promotes Word Learning from Storybooks

Although shared storybook reading is a common activity believed to improve the language skills of preschool children, how children learn new vocabulary from such experiences has been largely neglected in the literature. The current study systematically explores the effects of repeatedly reading the same storybooks on both young children's fast and slow mapping abilities. Specially created story...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Stories for Children