Karen Littleton|Clare Wood|Pav Chera
Interactions with talking books: phonological awareness affects boys' use of talking books
The Open University|Coventry University
abstract framed current concerns boys attainment literacy paper investigates potential talking books software support literacy development male beginning readers study primarily considered whether typically developing boys showed lower levels attainment phonological awareness would show greater degree improvement phonological awareness change reading strategy following talking books intervention boys demonstrating higher levels phonological awareness also examined whether boys phonological awareness attainment would affect used software support attempts reading terms interactions computer types speech feedback selected analysis also considered whether association nature boys teaching learning interactions computer changes reading strategies pre posttest findings suggest use talking books software particularly beneficial boys initially showed lower phonological proficiency boys study utilised talking books software adaptively depending phonological proficiency moreover evidence contact talking books affected reading strategies boys higher phonological awareness also evidence association way boys interacted software changes reading strategy pre posttest