This replication study of Hebrew versus Dutch electronic books for young children was based on De Jong & Bus’s content analysis, which explored whether e-books are appropriate supports for young children’s literacy development. Our criteria for analysing 43 Hebrew e-books for young children included book processing, multimedia in pictures, multimedia connected to printed or spoken text, interac...

Young children learn language from the speech they hear. Previous work suggests that greater statistical diversity of words and of linguistic contexts is associated with better language outcomes. One potential source of lexical diversity is the text of picture books that caregivers read aloud to children. Many parents begin reading to their children shortly after birth, so this is potentially a...

Prior research shows that shared book reading promotes preschoolers ́ language and literacy skills. However, little is known about the potential role of books ́ features –e.g., wordless picture books vs. books with text– in children and teachers ́ spontaneous language production. In this study, we transcribed verbal interactions of thirteen Colombian teachers reading to groups of preschooler stude...

burgh : E. and S. Livingstone. Price 1 Is. net each. We have received copies of the second revised and enlarged edition of these useful little summaries. As is well known these little books are in the form of question and answer. In older days students used to make similar summaries from text-books in their own note-books, but this catechism series presents the student with such summaries ready...

There is a remarkable absence of statement as to the dimensions of the cornea in the ordinary ophthalmic text-books. Fuchs contents himself with stating categorically that the vertical diameter is 11 mm. and the horizontal 12 mm. Swanzy is silent on the subject; as are Herbert and Smith in their books on Cataract, and Maynardj Grimsdale and Brewerton, Meller, and Mayou in their writings 011 Oph...

Books for beginning readers typically intermix text and pictures in close proximity. The proximity of difficult-todecode text to pictures may induce competition between these sources of information. As a result, children may frequently shift gaze between text and pictures, which may degrade memory representations of the text and reduce comprehension. A mobile eye tracker was used to measure chi...

A large number of out-of-copyright children books are available online, but are not very attractive to children due to a lack of illustrations. Automatic text illustration may enhance the reading experience of these books, but inappropriate picture coloring may convey inappropriate emotions. Since already at a very early age, children can map colors to certain emotions, we propose an approach t...

the mathematical treatises known as ta?r?r al-mutawassi??t, “revision of the middle books”, are a collection of greek and arabic treatises which were re-edited by na??r al-d?n al-??s?. this paper explores the nature of the editorial work ??s? did, showing that it is not a simple rendering of the original text but that it involves major revisions and in fact original additions. for the first tim...