2. Method
2.1. Design and procedure
An experimental study was designed to examine the effects of dialogic reading on children’s language
development. The design was a pre–post assessment of an experiment and control group. This design was intended
to examine and to compare reading techniques on children’s language development. For this purpose the present
study included two groups. One is experimental group in which the dialogic reading (DR) was implemented and
second is the control group in whish dialogic traditional reading was implemented (TR).
The pre-tests were administered before implementing DR and TR activities. All the children in the two groups
were tested individually and the assessment was administered in a quiet room at the school. Eight picture story books
were selected for the reading activities and the same books were read both in the experiment and the control group.
Books were 11–14 pages in length and had a quarter page of text with full page illustrations in the background.
For the experimental group, the dialogic reading activities were developed using PEER and CROWD techniques
and the researcher visited to the classroom two times a week and implemented DR activities. DR activities lasted
approximately 20 minutes and conducted in a small group of 7-9 children. For the control group, the classroom
teacher received and used the same 8 books over the 4-week period during the regular language activities. The
classroom teacher was asked to conduct her regular language activities with the children. After the 4 weeks of
implementation, the post-tests were administered in both groups.