A randomized controlled trial to test efficacy of digital enhancements of storybooks in support of narrative comprehension and word learning

Experiments with film-like story presentations have been found to be beneficial in supporting children’s story comprehension and word learning. The main goal of the current study was to disentangle the effects of visual and auditory enhancements in digital books. Participants were 99 typically developing children (41 boys and 58 girls) aged 4–6 years from two public kindergartens in Bursa, Turkey. A randomized controlled trial was conducted with...