Psychological Development and Education ›› 2008, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 14-18.

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Quantity of Family Shared Reading as a Predictor of Young Children’s Oral Vocabulary

ZHAO Jin-dong1, ZHOU Hui2, CHEN Xiao3   

  1. 1. Guang Dong Province Economy & Commerce Vocational School;
    2. Department of Psychology, Sun Yet-Sen Unviersity;
    3. The Zhuhai District of Beijing Normal University
  • Online:2008-01-15 Published:2008-01-15

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Abstract: This research was to develop a useful questionnaire for measuring the quantity of family shared reading based on the Chinese cultural background and conduct a further study for the relationship between shared reading and the oral vocabulary of 32 to 5-year-old children.A checklist,Children's Book Title List(BTL) was developed with satisfactory reliability and validity.The quantity of family shared reading explained unique variance in children's oral vocabulary after controlling for the intelligence of young children and parental educational level.The power of prediction of the Children's Book Title list was better than that of parent-reported frequency of shared reading.

Key words: Family shared reading, oral vocabulary, book title list

CLC Number: 

  • B844.12
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