新北市家長參與閱讀起步走計畫情形和幼兒語文能力之相關

Association Between Parental Involvement in the Bookstart Program and the Children's Language Skill in New Taipei City

本研究旨在瞭解新北市家長參與「閱讀起步走」計畫的情形，並探討家長參與該計畫情形與其孩子語文能力間之關聯。採立意取樣方式，透過新北市公共托育中心及私立托嬰中心協助，招募184名曾領取「閱讀起步走」閱讀禮袋，且孩子月齡為24-36個月大的家長參與本研究。研究工具包括家長問卷及華語嬰幼兒溝通發展量表。採用描述性統計和皮爾森積差相關進行資料分析。研究發現：（1）「閱讀起步走」計畫在新北市推廣結果，88%以上參與本研究的家庭在孩子兩歲前即開始共讀，81.4%親子每週至少共讀一次以上，共讀時間為11-20分鐘。（2）親子共讀起始時間越早、共讀頻率越高、共讀時間總量越長，幼兒的詞彙表達、語言使用和文字書本概念能力越佳。（3）家長越常使用禮袋內容物、越常使用公共圖書館資源（講座及借書），其孩子的文字書本概念能力越佳。（4）家長越常採用「閱讀起步走」之共讀策略和閱讀延伸活動，幼兒整體語文能力表現越好。本文最後針對新北市「閱讀起步走」計畫實務上的推廣進行討論與建議。

This study aimed to understand parental involvement in the Bookstart program and examine the association between parental involvement in the program and their children's language skills. With the assistance of the New Taipei City public and private daycare centers, purposive sampling was used to select 184 parents from the city who received the Bookstart reading pack and whose children were 24-36 months old to participate in the study. Research data were collected using the parent questionnaire and the Mandarin-Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (Taiwan). For data analysis, descriptive statistics and Pearson product-moment correlations were employed. The main findings were as follows: (1) The Bookstart program was widely promoted in New Taipei City. More than 88% of the families started shared reading before the children turned two years old, and 81.4% of parents and children read together at least once a week for 11-20 minutes. (2) The earlier families started parent-child reading, the higher the frequency of reading was, and the longer the total reading time was, the better the children's vocabulary expression, use of language, and print concept skills were. (3) The more often parents used the reading packs, attended childcare lectures, and borrowed books from the library for their children, the better their children's print concept skills were (4) The more often parents adopted co-reading strategies and reading extension activities recommended in the Bookstart program, the better the overall language proficiency of the children were.