- Title
- What do they do digitally? Identifying the home digital literacy practices of young children in Turkey
- Creator
- Ozturk, Gulsah; Ohi, Sarah
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/199254
- Identifier
- vital:19192
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2019.1702925
- Identifier
- ISSN:0957-5146
- Abstract
- Young children develop understandings about literacy from birth through experiences of print in their home environments. Today, written text is often present in children's homes in both print and digital forms. What kind of technologies are young children accessing at home and for what purposes? This paper discusses research findings from questionnaires completed by parents about the home digital literacy practices of 105 Turkish children aged 5-7 years and the nature of parental support for digital technology use at home. Parent interviews with five families further identified the technologies used, the children's repertoire of digital literacy practices and issues confronting parents about children's use of technology. The study revealed that children were actively engaged in multimodal practices through the use of digital technologies in play and learning in their homes. The main implications of this study are that it is important that educators be aware of children's existing digital home literacy practices as a foundation for further literacy learning and that parents may need support in understanding how technology use can contribute to children's literacy learning. Further research is warranted in this area.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Early years Vol. 42, no. 2 (2022), p. 151-166
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Subject
- Technology; Computer literacy; Parents; Home; Technological literacy; Kindergarten; Foreign countries; Literacy; Information technology; Education; Sociology; Social sciences; 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy; 3903 Education systems; 3904 Specialist studies in Education
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