Father-Child Literacy Teaching Activities as a Unique Predictor of Chinese Preschool Children's Word Reading Skills

Autor/inn/en	Xiao, Nan; Che, Yishu; Zhang, Xiao; Song, Zhanmei; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Yin, Shaoqing
Titel	Father-Child Literacy Teaching Activities as a Unique Predictor of Chinese Preschool Children's Word Reading Skills
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 29 (2020) 4, (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Xiao, Nan) ORCID (Zhang, Xiao)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.2183
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Mothers; Fathers; Parents as Teachers; Literacy Education; Reading Skills; Preschool Children; Chinese; Writing (Composition); Word Recognition; Receptive Language; Vocabulary; Memory; Correlation; Learning Activities; Individual Characteristics; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mother; Mutter; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; China; Chinesen; Schreibübung; Worterkennung; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Wortschatz; Gedächtnis; Korrelation; Lernaktivität; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Hongkong
Abstract	This study examined the relationship between the frequency of mother-child and father-child literacy teaching activities and the reading skills of Chinese preschool children. A total of 105 Hong Kong Chinese preschoolers and their fathers and mothers were involved. Fathers and mothers independently reported the frequency of their own literacy teaching activities (i.e., reading Chinese characters, recognizing Chinese characters based on their pronunciations and writing Chinese characters). Children were tested individually on their Chinese word reading skills, receptive vocabulary and verbal memory. Structural equation modelling was used to assess the relations between mother-child and father-child literacy teaching activities and children's reading skills. The results showed that, although mothers engaged in home literacy teaching activities more frequently than did fathers, the participation of fathers--and not mothers--in Chinese literacy teaching activities significantly predicted their children's Chinese reading skills after controlling for vocabulary, verbal memory and demographic variables (i.e., parental education, the child's age and gender). The results highlight the importance of paternal involvement in home education for Chinese preschoolers' literacy learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01