ERIC Number: EJ1457966
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-1461
EISSN: EISSN-1558-9129
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Parent Teaching Using the Enhanced Moved by Reading to Accelerate Comprehension in English Intelligent Tutoring System to Teach Question-Asking during Shared Book Reading in Latino Families
Sindhu Chennupati; Maria Adelaida Restrepo; Arthur Glenberg; Erin Walker; Chris Blais; Ligia Gómez Franco
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, v56 n1 p158-176 2025
Purpose: The Parent--Enhanced Moved by Reading to Accelerate Comprehension in English (Parent EMBRACE) program offers a bilingual parent-training literacy intervention for Latino families. Within the context of shared book reading, the application leverages both the home language and technology to increase parent question-asking during shared reading. Research goals were to (a) examine the potential of the Parent EMBRACE tutoring system at teaching parents to increase the quantity and variety of their question-asking during shared book reading, (b) examine changes to parents' reading attitudes or motivation, and (c) examine whether children's reading attitude is correlated with parent interactions. Method: Twenty-one participants were randomized into three conditions: a digital storybook (DS) group (n = 7), an interactive storybook (EMBRACE) group (n = 6), and a parent-teaching interactive storybook (Parent EMBRACE) group (n = 8). Participants received iPads with digital storybooks for use during the intervention (in which the parent-teaching group received prompts from the app to ask questions while reading). Shared book reading assessments before and after the intervention involved hard-copy books, and behaviors were analyzed using video-recorded reading sessions before and after the intervention. Group differences were explored using descriptive analysis. Reading attitude and motivation were measured through pre- and post-intervention surveys. The relationship between parent interactions and reading attitudes was explored through regression. Results: Results indicate that after the intervention, four out of seven parents in the parent-teaching interactive storybook group asked more questions to their children. Parents' reading attitudes and motivations did not significantly change. There was a nonlinear relationship with parent interactions and children's reading attitude. Conclusion: Overall, the Parent EMBRACE tool shows feasibility and warrants further study on its efficacy as a linguistically responsive literacy-based language intervention for Latino parents to develop shared book reading strategies.
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students, Parents as Teachers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Influence, Parent School Relationship, Parent Student Relationship, English (Second Language), Bilingual Instructional Materials, Bilingual Education Programs, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Tablet Computers, Reading Attitudes, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Improvement, Reading Materials, Reading Strategies, Reading Motivation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1917636
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