ERIC Number: EJ1127299
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 16
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Enhancing Parent-Child Relationship through Dialogic Reading
Ganotice, Fraide A., Jr.; Downing, Kevin; Mak, Teresa; Chan, Barbara; Lee, Wai Yip
Educational Studies, v43 n1 p51-66 2017
Dialogic reading (DR) has been identified as an effective strategy for enhancing children's literacy skills in Western and Asian contexts. Given that storytelling is a shared experience between adults and children, parent-child relationships is hypothesised to be enhanced by DR. Despite this possibility, there has been no systematic attempt to examine the possible impacts of DR on the parent-child relationship. This study bridges this gap in the literature by studying the relationship between adults and children before and after training in the practice of dialogic reading techniques. Forty-eight Cantonese-speaking parents with children aged between 3 and 12 were recruited from schools. They were assessed prior to and after undergoing a four-hour dialogic reading training programme with a two-hour follow-up session using the Parent-Child Relationship Inventory. The results of this study suggest that DR has considerable potential for improving parent-child relationships. The findings are discussed in relation to the situation of Chinese learners in the Hong Kong context.
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Literacy, Story Telling, Reading, Sino Tibetan Languages, Parents, Foreign Countries, Interaction, Parenting Skills, Hypothesis Testing, Age Differences, Pretests Posttests, Elementary School Students, Surveys, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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