Tablet and Smartphone or a Book: The Struggle Between Digital Media and Literacy Environment in Homes of Croatian Preschool Children and Its Effect on Letter Recognition
| Autor: | Marina Merkaš, Marija Šakić Velić, Marina Kotrla Topić |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Parents Social Psychology Higher education Croatia media_common.quotation_subject 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Memory and Learning Tests Literacy Digital media Entertainment 0508 media and communications Surveys and Questionnaires Reading (process) Humans digital media tablet and smartphone home literacy environment letter recognition 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Applied Psychology media_common Medical education Parenting Point (typography) business.industry Books Communications Media Communication 05 social sciences General Medicine Semantics Computer Science Applications Test (assessment) Human-Computer Interaction Reading Computers Handheld Scale (social sciences) Female Smartphone business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 23:412-417 |
| ISSN: | 2152-2723 2152-2715 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/cyber.2019.0482 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the amount of time that preschool children, aged 6–7 years, spend using a tablet or a smartphone for entertainment purposes, aspects of their home literacy environment (HLE), and their letter recognition ability. Participants in the study were a convenient sample of 97 children (43 girls) aged 6–7 years and one of their parents, who agreed to participate in the research during the process of school readiness assessment. Children completed a letter recognition test, while parents filled out a questionnaire in which they gave estimates of the amount of time their child typically spends using a tablet or a smartphone for entertainment purposes during a typical week and completed a scale assessing their HLE. The results show that a smaller amount of time that children spend using a tablet or a smartphone for entertainment purposes during a typical week, higher education level of mothers, and more frequent parental engagement in interactive reading with children are positively related to children’s letter recognition. However, more frequent interactive reading with the child was the only significant predictor of better letter recognition. The findings point to the importance of time spent using digital devices for entertainment purposes by preschool children, as well as the quality of their home environment, in literacy development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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