Mother-Toddler Shared Reading with Electronic versus Print Books: Mothers’ Language Use and Perspectives

Research Findings: Reading e-books is becoming common even among toddlers, but we have limited understanding of how parents-toddlers reading e-books together compares to print books. To address the gap, we investigated interactions of 30 mother-toddler (12 months) dyads, in particular, mothers’ language use, while reading both electronic and print versions of the same book. These shared reading sessions were video-recorded. Mothers’ perceptions...