Promoting reading for preschoolers in Chai Thani Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jiskku.2023.7Keywords:
Encourage reading, Lao PDR, PreschoolerAbstract
Purpose: to investigate and compare the reading promotion condition of the Pre-elementary School learners at Xaythany district schools, in Vientiane Capital, the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR)
Methodology: the study has employed the observation methods through the questionnaire collected from Two-hundred and thirty-three (233) patrons and One-hundred and forty-two (142) teachers from pre-elementary schools at Xaythany district schools in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. The data were analysed in the form Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation and One-way ANOVA.
Findings: the study results revealed that in general the reading promotion of the pre-elementary school learners at Xaythany district schools was at moderate level. Turning into each aspect consideration, the results also demonstrated that the reinforcement had the highest effect toward to the reading promoting and followed by environment management, educating and being a role model, respectively. On one hand, in the teacher aspects, the reading promotion organized by teachers for the pre-elementary school learners was also generally at the moderate level. For each aspect, the results demonstrated that the integrated reading promotion had the highest effect to the learners, followed by the environment management at the schools, the reading promotion management from teachers and the school libraries, respectively. Comparing reading promotion from the patrons toward the learners, by personal attributes classification, the results indicated that the different levels of education, occupation, and income resulted in the learners reading promotion had significantly different at 0.05. Similar to teachers and teaching experience were significantly different at the 0.05 correspondingly.
Applications of this study: from the results in this study, the National Library of Laos might adapt and formulate policies and reading promotion models in various communities through the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to encourage reading ability and the reading preferences for the learners and adolescents.
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