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. 2009 Sep-Oct;80(5):1360-75.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01338.x.

Live action: can young children learn verbs from video?

Sarah Roseberry  1 , Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Julia Parish-Morris, Roberta M Golinkoff
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Live action: can young children learn verbs from video?

Sarah Roseberry et al. Child Dev. 2009 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

The availability of educational programming aimed at infants and toddlers is increasing, yet the effect of video on language acquisition remains unclear. Three studies of 96 children aged 30-42 months investigated their ability to learn verbs from video. Study 1 asked whether children could learn verbs from video when supported by live social interaction. Study 2 tested whether children could learn verbs from video alone. Study 3 clarified whether the benefits of social interaction remained when the experimenter was shown on a video screen rather than in person. Results suggest that younger children only learn verbs from video with live social interaction whereas older children can learn verbs from video alone. Implications for verb learning and educational media are discussed.

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The Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm (see Hollich, et al., 2000).
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Expected quadratic pattern for the Stringent Test of Verb Learning.
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Percentage Looking Time to the Trained Action in Studies 1, 2, and 3. Error Bars Represent the Standard Error of the Mean. *denotes a significant percentage of looking time to target during individual test trials **denotes significant quadratic patterns n.s. denotes quadratic patterns which are not significant
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