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The role of parental engagement in enhancing reading skills among public pre-school pupils in Tanzania: the case of Muheza district in Tanga region

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dc.creator Kato, Diana Kokuteta
dc.date 2019-09-04T11:23:17Z
dc.date 2019-09-04T11:23:17Z
dc.date 2018
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T14:15:45Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T14:15:45Z
dc.identifier Kato, D. K. (2018). The role of parental engagement in enhancing reading skills among public pre-school pupils in Tanzania: the case of Muheza district in Tanga region. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1612
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1612
dc.description Dissertation (MA Education)
dc.description This study explores the Role of Parental Literacy Engagement in Enhancing Reading Skills to Pre-school Children. The study was conducted in Muheza district in Tanga region involving a total number of 80 participants composed of 30 preschool children(12 male and 18 female), 40 parents (22 female and 18 male), 2 Ward Education Officers, 4 Head of schools and 4 class teachers. The study employed: purposive sampling and simple random sampling to obtain participants. Furthermore, the study employed case study design through mixed approach where semi-structured interview, participatory observation and questionnaire were employed for data collection. The data were analyzed based on themes or objectives and resulted into the emergence of different sub-themes. The study findings revealed that, the role of parental literacy involvement is the best strategy of developing pre-school children literacy learning at school. Parental literacy engagements were found to develop the preschool children‟s oral language and vocabulary and enhanced confidences of using different learning materials at home. Also the study found that, songs and shared reading at home are the most effective literacy practices supporting the role of parental literacy engagement in enhancing reading skills to preschool children. However, parents are to be empowered in order to understand broadly about their role in literacy engagement in enhancing reading skills to preschool children. Lastly, it is recommended that more study (s) should be conducted in the area of the role of parental literacy engagement in enhancing reading skills to preschool children as it seems that such studies as conducted in Tanzania are limited.
dc.language en
dc.publisher The University of Dodoma
dc.subject Tanga
dc.subject Muheza district
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Pre-school children
dc.subject Reading skills
dc.subject Parental literacy engagement
dc.subject Reading
dc.subject Pre-school pupils
dc.subject Reading skills pre-school pupils
dc.subject Public pre-school pupils
dc.title The role of parental engagement in enhancing reading skills among public pre-school pupils in Tanzania: the case of Muheza district in Tanga region
dc.type Dissertation


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