Learning from Picturebooks

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Jörg Meibauer is Chair for German Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.Kerstin Nachtigäller is a member of the Emergentist Semantics Group at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Katharina J. Rohlfing is Head of the Emergentist Semantics Group at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany.

• Understanding Learning from Picturebooks: an Introduction. Part 1: Symbol-based Learning in Picturebooks Picturebooks and Early Literacy. How Do Picturebooks Support Early Conceptual and Narrative Development?. An Examination of Factors that Affect Young Children’s Learning and Transfer from Picturebooks. What the Child Can Learn from Simple Descriptive Picturebooks. An Inquiry into Lastwagen/Trucks by Paul Stickland. The Development of Color Vision and of the Ability to Appreciate Color in Picturebooks. Part 2: Co-constructed Learning from Picturebooks Gesturing in Joint Book Reading. Growing Vocabulary in the Context of Shared Book Reading. The Role of Distributed Cognition in Early Explorations of Symbolic Expression. Affective Interaction During Classroom Picturebook Reading. Part 3: Learning Language Skills from Picturebooks Word Learning via Shared Storybook Reading. What Good is a Picturebook? Developing Children’s Oral Language and Literacy Through Shared Picturebook Reading. Tense Acquisition with Picturebooks.

"With chapter contributors coming from fields such as developmental psychology, optometry and vision science, early-years education, clinical linguistics, international children’s literature, multimodal literacy, linguistics, philosophy, and preschool education – this scholarly work is a compendium of interdisciplinary approaches which looks into how children acquire language as well as develop cognitive, emotional, and emergent literacy skills through picturebooks… The editors have done a remarkable job of structuring each chapter in such a way that the core connecting thread of how children learn from picturebooks runs through this academic text that features empirical investigations conducted or reviewed extensively but hay chapter contributors." — Rhoda Myra Garces-Bascal, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature