As a supporter of reading with children and a fan of traditional print books, I cannot say I am entirely surprised by the results of new research suggesting that print books are the best way to go when reading with young children.
Reading books is one of the great and ongoing pleasures of my life, and although I read all kinds of things on screens, I cling to the print book, the paper book, or what we all secretly call “the book-book.”
In a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at the University of Michigan asked 37 parents to read similar stories to their 2- to 3-year-olds in three different formats(the order was varied for the different families): a print book, a basic electronic book (no bells or whistles) on a tablet, and an enhanced electronic book with animation and/or sound effects(tap a sea gull or a dog and hear the sounds they make). The interactions were videotaped and coded, looking at the number and kinds of verbalizations by parents and by children, at the amount of collaborative reading that went on, and at the general emotional tenor of the interaction.
Reading print books together generated more verbalizations about the story from parents and from toddlers, more back and forth “dialogic” collaboration. (“What’s happening here?” “Remember when you went to the beach with Dad?”). Dr. Tiffany Munzer, a fellow in developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, who was the first author on the study, said the researchers had wanted to study toddlers in particular because of a concern that the toddlers might be particularly susceptible to distraction by electronic enhancements. That was why the enhanced books were compared to print books but also to nonenhanced electronic books.
为一个与孩子共读的支持者和传统印刷纸质书的粉丝，我对最新的研究结果未感到非常吃惊。这些研究表明，纸质书是与孩童一同阅读的最佳方式。
Reading books is one of the great and ongoing pleaqsures of my life,
在星期一发表在《儿科学》杂志上的一项研究中，密歇根大学的研究人员要求37名家长以三种不同的形式（不同家庭的形式顺序不同）给他们2-3岁的孩子读类似的故事：一本印刷书，一本平板电脑上的普通电子书（没有铃声或哨声），一本带动画或音效的增强型电子书（轻点海鸥或狗会听到它们的叫声）。互动被录像并编码观察父母和孩子语言的数量和种类、共同阅读持续的时间以及互动的总体情感进程。
一起阅读印刷书籍，会给父母和幼儿形成更多用言语表达描述故事的机会，产生更多来回“对话式”协作。（“这里发生了什么？” “还记得和爸爸一起去海滩的时候吗？”）密歇根大学 莫特儿童医院发育行为儿科研究院Tiffany Munzer博士是这项研究的第一作者，他说，研究人员特别想研究幼儿，因为担心幼儿注意力可能特别容易收到增强型电子书的干扰。这就是为何拿增强型电子书和印刷书籍、普通电子书进行比较。
toddler 学步的孩童，幼童
cling to 坚持，紧抓，保留
format 形式，设计
vary 变化，不同
enhance 提高，加强，增强
animation 动画
sound effects
sea gull 海鸥
code 代码，密码（拓：QR code 二维码）
emotional tenor 情感进程
generated 形成，造成
verbalizations 用言语表达，用文字描述
collaboration 合作，协作
in particular 尤其，特别
distraction 注意力分散
Reading books is one of the great and ongoing pleasures of my life, and although I read all kinds of things on screens, I cling to the print book, the paper book, or what we all secretly call “the book-book.” “reading books”是指读书这一行为而非名词复数，故后接动词单数；“although I read all kinds of things on screens” 为although引导的让步状语从句。
语法：though/although引导的让步状语从句：表示“虽然，纵然”之意。这两个连词意思大致相同，在一般情况下可以互换使用。在口语中，though较常使用，although比though正式，二者都可与yet，still或nevertheless连用，但不能与but连用。
Eg：Though I believe it, yet I must consider.
尽管我相信这一点，但我还得考虑考虑。
Although/Though he was exhausted, he(still) kept on working.
虽然他已经精疲力竭了，但他仍然继续工作。
Although/Though he is very old, (yet) he is quite strong.
他虽然年纪大了，身体还很健壮。
值得注意的是，although引导的让步状语从句位于主句之前的情况较多，though引导的让步状语从句可位于主句之前或主句之后。
Eg：She passed the examination though she had not studied very hard.
她虽然不用功学习，考试却及格了。
Dr. Tiffany Munzer, a fellow in developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, who was the first author on the study, said the researchers had wanted to study toddlers in particular because of a concern that the toddlers might be particularly susceptible to distraction by electronic enhancements. 句子略长，其中有较多从句结构，来拆分一下：“a fellow in developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital” 做Tiffany Munzer博士的同位语；“who was the first author on the study” 是who引导的定语从句，同样修饰Tiffany Munzer博士；主句 “Dr. Tiffany Munzer said the researchers had wanted to study toddlers in particular because of a concern.”，后接“that the toddlers might be particularly susceptible to distraction by electronic enhancements” that引导的定语从句，补充说明concern担忧的具体内容。
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