Purpose We examined the role of distal (parents' education, family's income, parents'
expectations, and parents' attitudes to the home teaching of literacy) and proximal (formal …

The home literacy environment (HLE) is critical to children's language and literacy
development. Most prior research has not investigated different facets of HLE or considered …

Reading is a complex activity that is related to factors from the cognitive, ecological, and
psychological domains. However, few studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying …

Computational thinking (CT) is widely recognized as a fundamental skill in the information
age. However, within the context of Chinese early childhood education (ECE), CT remains …

This study investigated the mediating role of children's school liking between parent-child
interactions and children's pre-academic skills. Specifically, parent-child interactions …

Literacy skills are acquired during childhood through 'code‐related activities', which are
interactions and practices that directly engage children with written words. This study …

This study investigated the impact of home literacy environment (HLE) on the acquisition of
English as a second language (L2) and reading skills in Chinese-speaking kindergarten …

Instilling literacy skills from an early age has a significant impact in forming the basis of a
child's development and leads to strong literacy skills in the future. This research aims to …

While child poverty is declining globally, many children in Sub-Saharan Africa still live in
poverty and face obstacles that hinder them from achieving their full developmental …

We examined the relations between parental socioeconomic status, attitudes toward the
home teaching of literacy, expectations for children's literacy, educational involvement, and …