A Culturally Responsive Literacy Program for Hispanic Fathers and Their Children

Abstract

This study examined a language and cultural literacy program for Hispanic fathers to promote their children’s literacy development. This study had two phases: (a) training the teachers and (b) educating the fathers. The results indicated that the fathers learned how to promote their Hispanic children’s literacy development using their family’s language, culture, interests, and experiences. Fathers differed in their use of language, culture, literacy strategies, literacy experiences, and responses to the literacy program.

Este estudio examinó un programa de lenguaje y cultura literaria para que padres hispanos promovieran el desarrollo literario de sus hijos. Este estudio tuvo dos fases: (a) entrenando los maestros y (b) educando a los padres. Los resultados indicaron que los padres aprendieron como promover el desarrollo literario de sus hijos hispanos usando el lenguaje de su familia, cultura, intereses, y experiencias. Los padres difirieron en su uso de lenguaje, cultura, estrategias literarias, experiencias literarias, y respuestas al programa literario.

Keywords

fathers’ roles fathers and literacy literacy development family literacy cultural literacy emergent literacy

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