An Investigation of the relationship between preschoolers' reading attitudes and home literacy environment

Download

index.pdf

Date

2013

Author

Altun, Dilek

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

642
views

392
downloads

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between preschool children’s reading attitudes and their home literacy environment. In addition, children’s perceptions of reading in terms of their reading attitudes were examined as a part of this study. The sample of this study consisted of 261 parents and their 5 year-old children who were enrolled preschool in Ankara, Turkey. The data of this study were collected through child interviews, demographic information forms, and the following questionnaires: the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (Umek et al., 2005) and the Preschool Children Reading Attitudes (Saracho, 1986) questionnaire. These questionnaires were both translated into Turkish, and statistical analyses were conducted to control for validity and reliability issues through a pilot study. The results of the study showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between preschool children’s reading attitudes and their home literacy environment. In addition, the study revealed there were some differences in children’s reading attitudes and their home literacy environment in regards to demographic variables. Furthermore, the study demonstrated that children who have more positive reading attitudes tended to give clearer and more detailed responses to questions and were more aware that writing contains messages. In addition, those children mentioned letters and the role of letters in the learning to read process.

Subject Keywords

Reading (Early childhood)., Reading, Reading, Education, Preschool., Literacy.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615621/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22514

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

A Multilevel analysis of home and classroom literacy environments in relation to preschoolers‘ early literacy development Altun, Dilek; Tantekin Erden, Feyza; Snow, Catherine E.; Department of Elementary Education (2016) This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of the preschool children‘s home and classroom literacy environments and to search for relationships between receptive and expressive vocabulary, phonological awareness and concepts about print development. The participants of study were 168 parents and their children attending five private preschools in Ankara. The two-wave data of the study was collected during the fall and spring semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. The findings of the study reveale...
Investigating the association between playfulness, environment and social skills of preschool children Sicim Sevim, Berna; Tantekin Erden, Feyza; Department of Elementary Education (2017) The purpose of this study is to investigate the associations between playfulness and social skills of preschool children and preschools’ environment supportiveness for playfulness. The participants of the study were 212 5-year-old preschool children (94 boys, 118 girls). The data were collected in 16 private (n=6) and public (n=10) preschools. After grouping preschool settings into low, moderate and high levels of environmental supports for play by using The Test of Environmental Supportiveness, the Test of...
An Analysis of the effectiveness of quality indicators in early childhood education on subsequent science competency on a cross-country and Turkish case basis Kaya, Elif; Olgan, Refika; Department of Early Childhood Education (2014) The main aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of early childhood education on children’s subsequent science competency in PISA assessment. In doing so, the influence of country-level and student-level factors on children’s later competency on the PISA science literacy were also examined. Country-level indicators were determined following variables from past records: public and private expenditure in pre-primary education, pupil-teacher ratio, enrolment rate in pre-primary, duration in pre-...
An Investigation of preservice early childhood teachers’ levels of individual innovativeness and perceived attributes of instructional computer use Yılmaz, Nursel; Olgan, Refika; Department of Early Childhood Education (2013) Based on Rogers‟ (2003) Diffusion of Innovations theory, this study aims to investigate preservice early childhood teachers‟ innovativeness level and perceived attributes of computer use in early childhood education. Moreover, the differences between adopter categories regarding the perceived attributes of computer use and communication channel preferences were examined within the scope of this study. For these purposes, this study was designed as a quantitative research and data were gathered by three scal...
An investigation of social competence and behavioral problems of 5-6 year-old children through peer preference, temperament and gender Öneren Şendil, Çağla; Erden, Feyza; Department of Early Childhood Education (2010) The aim of this study is to investigate differences in peer preference, gender and temperamental characteristics of 5 and 6 year old children on their social competence and behavioral problems. More specifically, the present study examined whether being boy or girl, being more preferred peer or less preferred and different temperamental characteristics differentiates children’s social competence, anger- aggression and anxiety withdrawal related behaviors. Peer preference was determined by the “Picture Socio...

Citation Formats

D. Altun, “An Investigation of the relationship between preschoolers’ reading attitudes and home literacy environment,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.