Argumentative essay

“E-Books is the Best Way to Develop Students Literacy”

Student and literacy is something that has a close relation. As we know, one of the method increase their literacy is to support their interesting to read the books. In the fact, many students doesn’t like to read the book. For most of them, read is  bored activity. The teacher have to know how to depelove their students literacy. Some article claim, that books better than e-book. Because they said the e-book has some disadvantage, such as some of which require signing a license that limits the user.(Stallman, 2011)

They said, story books hold a special places in children literacy depelovment. As children are read to they acquire an enormous amount of topical knowledge. Altought many experiences are said to contribute to early literacy no other single activity is regarded as importent as the shared book experience between caregiver and children. Consequently, a critical focus in early literacy has been to get books in children hand’s. (Neuman, 2009)

Then, using books in the classroom’ begins with suggestions about how teachers and students can increase the amount of written material in their classrooms. It then looks at books in particular, with the aim of helping teachers understand the types of books available and to begin thinking about what makes a good book for children.(Reilly, 2009) So, the books is an important thing to supporting students literacy.

Kimanuka  (2015)  argues  that  there  is  a  challenge  to  create  a  culture  of  reading  books  by  educating  parents about the importance of reading books to their children. The same author points out that there is no doubt that reading is an essential tool for lifelong learning and that it is important for everyone to develop the rudiments of reading and the culture of reading always so as to survive in our increasingly challenging world. (Triennale, 2017)

But, students now spend a lot of time reading from a screen: computers, kindle, mobile devices. Theresearch into the implications of this are still in the early stages, however current evidence indicates that at this point in time print may be slightly superior to the screen in relation tocomprehension, learning, retention and ease of use.  However, as screen technology continues to advance, interfaces become increasingly intuitive and personal preferences change from early exposure to reading on a screen, this may change — and may have already changed for some individuals. The concept of ‘digital natives’has been debunked (Bennett, Maton & Kervin, 2008) and we cannot assume that all students are comfortable with technology.(Salter, 2013)

How about our modern era? Technology also an important things that can be separated with our life. Zucker and others (2009) reported at the level of applied practice, e-books proved that they are attractive tools for many learners, because it can be easily integrated within educational programs for literacy, whichrequired teachers  to  have  a  bit  of  procedural  knowledge  and  practical  skill  to  use  computer.

Firstly, educational technology is commonly used. The use of technology at preschool education has an important role with a lot of effective methods so that children can learn. Preschool teachers use the technology to support children’s development. Early literacy skills have gained more importance especially in the recent years. As a result, the use of technology has been necessary to develop early literacy skills. On the other hand,  we can not refuse technology.

In the previous studies related to E-book interactive book reading are gathered and it aims to introduce based on dialogue E-book to families and teachers and makes some proposals to support the early literacy skills through based on dialogue E-book. Besides, by studying the related literature, developing early skills to reading E-book or reading book were compared and the results were argued.(N & Ph, 2017)

Electronic books (e-storybooks) are widely used in early childhood classrooms in efforts to encourage engagement in storybooks while promoting emergent literacy development. The current research believe e-storybooks useful for supporting young children and offers this evidence can be translated into best practice in classroom. The use of e-storybooks in early childhood classrooms seems to be a growing trend. Educators are interested in the use of reading technologies to support young emergent readers, especially those who are at risk for reading failure. E-storybooks allow children to read and listen to a book while obtaining emergent literacy supports including digital features(Moody, 2010)

Literacy tool would promote literacy more, electronic books or print books. The new literacies theory implies that teachers implement technology into their classrooms so that students can navigate through the 21stcentury. eBooks could help students reading comprehension skills improve. Six students were chosen to test reading retell comprehension after interacting with an eBook’s enhanced features. When testing students reading retell comprehension with print books, students read aloud for a pre-reading assessment. It was found that eBooks contain engaging reading features that help students improve reading comprehension. Multiple implications will help teachers improve their curriculum with the use of eBooks along with professional development.(Reid, 2016)

The reading behaviors of 25 preschool-aged children were observed during three storybook reading conditions: adult led e-storybook, child led e-storybook, and adult led traditional storybook. Children’s level of reading engagement and type and quantity of communicative initiations were analyzed. When comparing media, children displayed higher levels of persistence during the adult led e-storybook compared to the adult led traditional storybook condition. However, children produced more communicative initiations during the adult led traditional storybook condition. When comparing the reading manner between adult and child led e-storybook conditions, more labelling references were observed during the adult led condition. Results suggested that both media and manner matter.(Moody, Justice, & Cabell, 2010)

Finally, from many recent research, technology give an importent role to increase students literacy and e-books are really useful to increase student literacy. Because most of them more interesting to using e-books than printed books. So, I believe that e-books effective to depelove students literacy.

References

Moody, A. K. (2010). Using Electronic Books in the Classroom to Enhance Emergent Literacy Skills in Young Children. Journal of Literacy and Technology, 11(4), 22–52.

Moody, A. K., Justice, L. M., & Cabell, S. Q. (2010). Electronic versus traditional storybooks: Relative influence on preschool children’s engagement and communication. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 10(3), 294–313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798410372162

N, E. Y. Ş. S. İ., & Ph, D. (2017). The Early Literacy at Preschool Education : The Book or the E-Book ?, 16(4), 77–83.

Neuman, S. B. (2009). Books Make A Difference (vol 34). International Reading Association.

Reid, C. (2016). eBooks and Print Books Can Have Different Affects on Literacy Comprehension eBooks and Print Books Can Have Different Affects on Literacy.

Reilly, N. (2009). Enjoying books together : a guide for teachers on the use of books in the classroom. Enjoying Books Together a Guide for Teachers on the Use of Book in the Classroom.

Salter, B. P. (2013). Impact of reading from a screen versus from printed material.

Stallman, R. (2011). The Danger of E-books, 1. Retrieved from http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf

Triennale, A. (2017). A comparative study on the role of digital media and print media in enhancing literacy and reading culture in Afrika, (December 2016).