Shared reading, a factor influences child’s language improvement

Shared reading means the activity of reading books between parent and child and the verbal interaction that developed between them. We assume that this verbal conciliation essentially contributes to the development of the infant"s vocabulary much more than if they have just played together. In this study involved 30 mothers whose children were assessed by an official state organization and "Language and Speech Problems" were diagnosed. They resided in urban and rural areas. A two-part questionnaire was designed. The first part concerned personal information and the second one consisted of semi-structured questions, which referred to family"s reading habits, leisure time activities and how mothers are used to spent time with their children. Analysis of the data revealed maternal literacy beliefs. They reported engaging in fewer literacy practices such as reading with their offspring or talking about their children’s queries because they consider that this process is about joining the school education. Furthermore, they are neither used to read books, newspapers or magazines and prefer to spend their free time watching television or meet their friends.