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dc.contributor.authorChansa-Kabali, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorWesterholm, Jari
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-16T10:21:59Z
dc.date.available2014-06-16T10:21:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationChansa-Kabali, T. (2014). The Role of Family on Pathways to Acquiring Early Reading Skills In Lusaka’s Low-Income Communities. Human Technology, Volume 10 (1), pp. 5-21. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201405281857">doi:10.17011/ht/urn.201405281857</a
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/43722
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports findings from the study that examined the role of family in children’s acquisition of early reading skills. We recruited 72 first-grade learners and their parents from low-income Zambian families for the study. In response to a home literacy questionnaire, parents reported on their reading attitudes and family literacy environment. Children’s early reading skills were assessed using two early reading tests (orthographic awareness and decoding competence), both conducted at two different points during the year. Regression analyses of pretest and gain scores revealed that parental reading attitude and family literacy environment significantly predicted early reading skills. These findings suggest that the family is an important element in the children’s process of learning to read. Implications of the findings are discussed.en
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dc.publisherAgora Center, University of Jyväskylä
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHuman Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
dc.relation.urihttp://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.subject.otherparental reading attitudefi
dc.subject.otherearly reading skillsfi
dc.subject.otherfamily literacy environmentfi
dc.subject.otherlow-income familiesfi
dc.subject.otherZambiafi
dc.titleThe Role of Family on Pathways to Acquiring Early Reading Skills In Lusaka’s Low-Income Communities
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201405281857
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.17011/ht/urn.201405281857
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange5-21
dc.relation.issn1795-6889
dc.relation.numberinseries1
dc.relation.volume10
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dc.rights.copyright© 2014 Tamara Chansa-Kabali and Jari Westerholm, and the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä
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