Low-Income Immigrant Pupils Learning Vocabulary Through Digital Picture Storybooks by Marian Verhallen and Adriana Bus from Leiden University examined whether digital picture storybooks could help low-income children learn the proper amount of vocabulary prior to beginning school, lessening the chances of them developing reading difficulties. Since that often happens to children who start school with a much lower vocabulary than their classmates. In this study, the researchers examined the effects of the video storybooks on 92 five year old children, whom they repeatedly exposed to the digital storybook. After the study, it was found that the storybooks were helpful in teaching children vocabulary words, helping lessen their chances of developing reading difficulties. The type of data needed for such a research question would be acts, behavior or events since the children’s reading abilities were directly observed by the researchers. Therefore, the data-gathering method for such data would be detached observation. While the method of data analysis would be ordinal since the children’s vocabularies were ranked after the research concluded. I found this to be a very interesting research question, I never thought digital picture storybooks could help to improve children’s vocabulary so much, but it is a very innovative and easy way to expand children’s vocabulary at a young age, which I believe my classmates would find interesting as well.

Verhallen, Marian and Bus, Adriana. (2010). Low-Income Immigrant Pupils Learning Vocabulary Through Digital Picture Storybooks. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 102. No. 1, pp. 54-61.