Parents' Attitudes Towards Emergent Literacy, Home Literacy Activity and Children's Vocabulary, Concepts about Print in Low-Income Families

저소득 가정 부모의 문해 발달 태도 및 가정 문해 활동과 유아의 어휘력, 인쇄물 개념간의 관계

Relationships between parents' home literacy attitudes in low-income families and children's emergent literacy were studied with 107 children 4- and 5-years of age and their parents. Instruments were Kim and Kwon's (2006) questionnaire about parents' literacy attitudes, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised(Kim et al., 1995) and the Concepts About Print(CAP; Kim & Kim, 2004). Results showed that parents of younger children were positive about reading books; parents of older children were positive about reading instruction. More positive parental feelings about reading and higher frequencies of reading with the child were related to children's higher vocabulary scores. Children's CAP was positively related with amount of parents' reading instruction, home literacy resources, and number of child's books in the home.