‘iPad has everything!’: how young children with diverse linguistic backgrounds in Malta and the U.S. process multimodal digital text

This exploratory study investigated whether/how kindergartners (ages 5–6) with different linguistic backgrounds in Malta and the U.S. engaged in similar or different reading processes with the same app book But Not the Hippopotamus in English. As part of a broader project, we purposefully sampled children who scored top three and bottom three in their retelling of the book from each of the four linguistic groups: (1) Maltese as the dominant home...