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DEVELOPING EARLY MULTILINGUAL LITERACY SKILLS THROUGH A MOBILE STORYBOOK READER APPLICATION

Kwee Teck, See, Madhubala Bava, Harji, Ah Choo, Koo


This paper describes the design of a mobile application, termed Multilingual Mobile Storybook Reader (MMSR), which is aimed at developing early multilingual literacy skills in a mobile assisted language learning (MALL) learning environment. The MMSR forms a hub in the MALL model, with adults scaffolding preschoolers’ early multilingual literacy development in a shared meaningful interactive multilingual storybook reading environment. The model will be tested and evaluated through a multilingual reading programme that links school and homes with a shared purpose of developing children’s early multilingual literacy skills.