Beyond the Spoken Words: The Roles of Body Postures in Supporting Reading Aloud Activities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Spoken Words; Body Postures; Reading

Abstract

This paper explains the importance of reading posture / body posture during parent-children read aloud sessions and how they support intimacy as well as maximize the process of knowledge construction during their reading sessions. 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 words and the body postures of a mother and her 8-year-old son’s interaction in 10 read aloud sessions. We found that in addition to using words that were comforting, the mother also used affectionate body contacts, and various reading postures that help the child engaged with the book during the reading sessions. In the light of these findings, we suggest that parents try varying their reading posture/body posture and familiarize affectionate body contact to enhance their reading together session.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - D M Ramadhani
AU  - I Rifai
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Beyond the Spoken Words: The Roles of Body Postures in Supporting Reading Aloud Activities
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 129
EP  - 136
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.021
ID  - Ramadhani2021
ER  -