Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)

The Significance of Book Selection: An EFL Parent’s Criteria for Selecting English Story Books

Authors
D M Ramadhani, I Rifai
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D M Ramadhani
Available Online 21 October 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211020.022How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Book, EFL, Parents, English Story Books
Abstract

There has been an increasing awareness on the importance of home literacy practices Indonesian societies. Reading and literacy events such as “21 Hari Seru Membaca Nyaring” was the manifestation of this increasing awareness. Despite the numerous efforts initiated by local communities to promote enthusiasm in reading and reading aloud, only a few pays attention on the significance of book selection process. Book selection is the process of selecting books to read. For young children, it is mostly done the caregivers. Book selection process involves both cognitive and sociocultural considerations that are interesting to examine. As part of a larger ethnographic study of home literacy practices, we would like to share some fragments of our data that focus on the process of book selection done by the adult participant of the study. During the process, the adult participant who happened to be an English teacher, considered content, visual features, readability, and story length for the books that they selected, in addition to the cultural considerations. Based on the analysis of the interactions, we suggest some practical implications on book selection process for home parent – children reading practices.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 October 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-441-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211020.022How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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