Digital Manipulatives as Scaffolds for Preschoolers' Language Development

• Published in: IEEE transactions on emerging topics in computing Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 439 - 449
• Main Authors: Sylla, C., Pereira, I. S. P., Coutinho, C. P., Branco, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Collaboration; Context; Digital manipulatives; Electronic mail; emergent literacy; learning; lexical knowledge; Licenses; oral expression; phonological knowledge; preschoolers; Robustness; tangible interfaces; Universal Serial Bus; Vocabulary

The study reported here aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of the educational possibilities offered by digital manipulatives in preschool contexts. It presents a study carried with a digital manipulative to enhance the development of lexical knowledge and language awareness, which are re...