Learning with audiobooks

“Millions of students nationwide use text-supplemented audiobooks, learning tools that are thought to help those who struggle with reading keep up in the classroom. A new study from scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research finds that many students do benefit from the audiobooks, gaining new vocabulary through the stories they hear. But study participants learned significantly more when...

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