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- Title
Pre-Service Preschool Teachers' Reading Habits, Attitudes, and Experiences as Predictors of Their Level of Competence in Selecting Children's Illustrated Storybooks.
- Authors
ALTUN, Dilek
- Abstract
Listening to and reading stories are important activities for children's development, and they can be supported in pleasant ways both at home and at preschool institutions. Thus, quality children's books with rich content are important for supporting preschoolers' development. Therefore, it is important for preschool teachers to choose books that are appropriate for the development level of children. It is thought that the book experiences of the pre-service teachers depend on their reading attitudes and that their habits may influence their competence when selecting picture books for children. This study aimed to examine the relationship between pre-service teachers' personal reading culture and experiences and their competence in selecting picture books for children. Participants of the study totaled 213 (female, 172; male, 41) pre-service preschool teachers. The results of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between pre-service teachers' personal reading habits, reading attitudes, the number of children's books they read during their university education, and the children's literature courses they take at the university and their competence in selecting children's picture books.
- Subjects
ILLUSTRATED books; STUDENT teachers; PRESCHOOL teachers; BOOKS &; reading; READING interests; READING; CHILDREN'S books; CHILD development
- Publication
Bartin University Journal of Faculty of Education, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3, p826
- ISSN
1308-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14686/buefad.387732