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Kotzampasaki, Aspasia-Marina (2012)

Home Literacy Environment Profiles and Emergent Literacy of Preschool Children: A Cluster Analysis

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

This study investigated home literacy environment in relation to emergent literacy, through a cluster analytic approach. Fifty eight parents of kindergartens completed a HLE questionnaire, an author recognition test and a child book recognition test. Included were scores on literacy activities, watching television, emergent literacy as well as socioeconomic status. From the findings emerge three home literacy profiles differing in engagement in literacy activities: (1) high engagement in literacy activities and low television watching, (2) low engagement in any activity, and (3) low engagement in literacy activities but high in watching television. Socioeconomic status did not differ among clusters.

literacy

HLE

literacy activities

watching television

SES

Author

Kotzampasaki, Aspasia-Marina

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Learning Problems and Impairments

Supervisors

Bus, Adriana G.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en