摘要：This study examined the emergent literacy development of children and the effects of the home literacy environment on it. 861 pairs each-consisting of a mother and a child aged form three to six years old were asked to complete the early literacy parent questionnaire (Boudreau,2005) and the home literacy environment questionnaire (Park & Kim,2008). The results showed that: (1) girls achieved higher scores than boys in emergent literacy and its subcategories. (2) there were age differences in all of the subcategories of emergent literacy except the categories of ``orientation toward literacy`` and ``phonological awarencess``. (3) The study revealed that ``reading books`` in the home literacy environment was the most contributive variable in predicting emergent literacy after controlling the age and gender followed by ``literacy learning``.
关键词：home literacy environment;emergent literacy;reading books;reading behavior and modeling of parents;literacy learning
