The Significance of Book Selection: An EFL Parent’s Criteria for Selecting English Story Books
- 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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- © 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - D M Ramadhani AU - I Rifai PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/21 TI - The Significance of Book Selection: An EFL Parent’s Criteria for Selecting English Story Books BT - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 137 EP - 145 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.022 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.022 ID - Ramadhani2021 ER -