Children's Vocabulary Development Through Dialogical Reading

In this study the researcher examined the impacts of dialogical storybook reading on children s receptive vocabulary development and their parents self- efficacy for storybook reading. The study also investigated parents concerns about the dialogical storybook reading technique and the technique s effects on parent-child relationships. Quantitative data were gathered to investigate the impact of the technique on children s receptive vocabulary development and their parents self-efficacy for storybook reading. Qualitative data were collected to examine parents concerns about the technique and its impacts on the parent-child relationship. Results revealed that the receptive vocabulary of experimental group children significantly increased from pre- to posttest. However, this increase did not occur for children in the control group. A comparison of posttest results for the two groups revealed that the experimental groups receptive vocabulary levels were significantly higher than those for the control group.

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Hüseyin Kotaman got his PhD. in 2007 in Curriculum & Instruction from Penn State University. He has three articles that were published in international journals and two articles in national journals. In 2009 he published a book on educational systems. Currently he is working as an assistance professor in Atatürk University.