The Role of the Home Literacy Environment and Parent Education in Effecting the Developmental Differences of Phonological Awareness During Early Child Hood

Eman Ahmed Ahmed Elmesalamy; Fekry Mohamed Hassan El-Ater

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The Role of the Home Literacy Environment and Parent Education in Effecting the Developmental Differences of Phonological Awareness During Early Child Hood

Eman Ahmed Ahmed Elmesalamy, Fekry Mohamed Hassan El-Ater

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 11, Issue 1)

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In the current study, the influence of both environmental and cultural factors on developmental differences among children was revealed in the processes of phonological awareness of the Arabic language, in an attempt to shed light on the importance of the cultural context in general. And the role of the family, in particular, in acquiring and developing the child’s phonological structure, by studying the role of the home literacy environment and the level of parents’ education in making developmental differences for the phonological awareness processes in Egyptian children in early childhood. One hundred Egyptian pre-school children (50 girls and 50 boys aged (3.5-4.5-5.5 years old), (mean age = 4.72) were assessed on the level of phonemic awareness, and the parents also filled out a questionnaire about their educational level And the frequency of engaging in various activities related to literacy at home with their children In addition to controlling both the general and non-verbal intelligence variables. The results indicated that the factors related to the home literacy environment (the linguistic activities of the mother with the child Which include: maternal talkativeness such as story-telling, singing and imagining stories with dolls)–and the reading rate of the parents in partnership with the child) and letter knowledge in addition to the level of mother education as a socio-cultural variable influencing developmental differences in phonological awareness processes for older age groups during early childhood, While the results did not indicate an effect of the factor of teaching the alphabet through the parents and the level of education of the father in the emergence of developmental differences between the age groups of phonological awareness processes.

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Home Literacy Environment, Phonological Awareness Processes, Early Childhood

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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