scholarly journals Flea market voices on literacy in Botswana

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Arua E Arua
Keyword(s):  
Reading Development ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Flea Markets ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Flea Market ◽  
Children’S Reading

This paper presents the views of some flea market vendors and clients, especially those whose voices are never heard, on the literacy and education issues that affect Botswana. Although small, the sample of respondents used for this study is representative of the kinds of people that populate flea markets. However, a large percentage of the respondents are male, thus indicating that male voices are dominant even in this setting. The findings of the study, which are similar to those in the literacy literature on Botswana, include the following: children lack interest in reading; parents have not been involved in their children’s reading development; and there are inadequate library and other resources to support a reading culture in Botswana. Some respondents advocate direct teaching of reading to their children, procuring reading materials for them and sending them to good private schools as ways of improving their children’s reading. Overall, the study shows that there is need to complement the top-down approach with the bottom-up approach, as there are valuable lessons policy makers can glean from canvassing the views of those in non-traditional government structures such as the flea markets.

scholarly journals The Management of Reading Park Case study in Kaba Kamboja Batipuh Panjang

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 493
Author(s):  
Fitri Anggeli ◽  
Solfema Solfema
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Monitoring Activities ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Reading Interest ◽  
Children’S Reading

Reading park it means of a place to increase children’s interest in reading which makes reading a daily culture in improving the quality of human resources. In Kaba Kamboja, the withdrawal of interest in reading is carried out by managers the managers is who are collage students. The manager himself which has several strategies in its services, especially learning management in the form of : 1) critical awareness 2) motivating children, 3) two-way communication, 4) monitoring activities, and 5) program providers as needed. In the case of kaba kamboja its focuses on reading interest to make area on Batipuh Panjang are reading culture. The purpose of managing the reading park itself now more focused on children’s reading culture. Kaba Kamboja is opened every times a week and more towards tutoring and becoming a focus for playing and learning areas for the children of the jambak village

Differential Effects of Sex-Oriented Reading Material on Children's Reading Performance

1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-298
Author(s):  
E. G. Johnson ◽  
L. Gibbons ◽  
H. Kepsi ◽  
R. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Differential Effect ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Significant Trend ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Cloze Procedure ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading

Sex-oriented reading materials were found to have a differential effect on the recall scores of boys and girls at the Year 4 level. A similar, non-significant trend was found for the comprehension scores based on the cloze procedure. The sex of the tester was found to have no significant effect on the performance of either boys or girls.

Children's reading of words, pseudohomophones, and other nonwords

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Laxon ◽  
Jackie Masterson ◽  
Alison Gallagher ◽  
Julia Pay
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Neighbourhood Effects ◽  
Nonword Reading ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
High Frequency Words

In Experiment 1 children aged 8-9 and 9-10 years were tested for neighbourhood and pseudohomophone effects in nonword reading. Neighbourhood effects (N effects) were robust irrespective of group or type of nonword. Pseudohomophones were read more accurately than other nonwords but this finding was robust only for the younger 8-9-year-olds. High-frequency words were read more accurately than low-frequency words, but the reverse applied to pseudohomophones based on high- and low-frequency words, although this was not robust. Error rates for the 9-10-year-olds in Experiment 1 were low, and so it was difficult to interpret the lack of a pseudohomophone advantage for reading nonwords in this age group. Experiment 2 was therefore carried out, which consisted of a replication of the first study with a further group of 9- 10-year-olds, but pronunciation latencies were measured, as well as accuracy. All the effects obtained in Experiment 1 were replicated but, in addition, an advantage for pseudohomophones in terms of pronunciation latencies was observed. The implications for accounts of reading development are discussed.

Charles Dickens and the ‘Dark Corners’ of Children’s Literature

2018 ◽  
pp. 336-354
Author(s):  
Molly Clark Hillard
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Amorphous Network ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
Do So

The time is right to consider anew the ways in which Dickens anticipated, participated in, and critiqued the vast mediascape of Victorian children’s literature. In order to do so, we must continue to challenge our enduring bias that children’s literature does not possess the dialogic register of other genres. Dickens, for one, knew better: though he often tells his readers that children’s literature is a ‘nursery of fancy’ that socializes and humanizes through its ‘bright little books’, he shows a world in which children’s literature is an amorphous network of ‘dark corners’, often governed by ruthless, working-class bodies. Dickens’s fiction and journalism reveal his awareness of children’s literature’s growing currency in economic, cultural, and aesthetic terms. This chapter focuses on the years 1849–54, when Dickens’s child production matched his literary production, and when he was sharply attuned to children’s reading materials.

Maternal teaching of reading and children's reading skills in Grade 1: Patterns and predictors of positive and negative associations

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gintautas Silinskas ◽  
Noona Kiuru ◽  
Asko Tolvanen ◽  
Pekka Niemi ◽  
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Maternal Teaching ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading
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