Abstract
Although there has been a large amount of research on reading performance among Brazilian children, very little has been done on both home and school experiences and their influence on children’s literacy and language skills and research has focused on children rather than on adolescent samples. The main question we ask on this study is whether perceived early print experience by adolescents and reading enjoyment relates to students reading performance in present day. Thirty-one adolescents participated in this research. They were enrolled in middle school and were from less affluent areas of the State of Rio de Janeiro. They answered a questionnaire about their perceived home literacy experiences in early age, a reading enjoyment scale and three reading measure tests. The results of the correlations carried out in the data showed that teenagers with higher home literacy scores made fewer errors in reading single words.
Highlights
Despite the recent changes in Brazilian economy that had reflection on social indicators, Brazil still faces a big challenge where education is concerned
The results show that measures of reading of reading experience like reading comic books and Mangá negatively correlated with reading comprehension but the amount of school reading positively correlated with this comprehension of written text (Baptista et al, 2016)
The present research aimed to investigate the reading performance of teenager students, seeking to verify whether previous experiences with reading and home literacy had any influence on these students reading achievement
Summary
Despite the recent changes in Brazilian economy that had reflection on social indicators, Brazil still faces a big challenge where education is concerned. One of the problems faced by Brazilian students is reading problems. Oliveira and Santos (2008), for example, found that the scores of Brazilian University students in a reading comprehension test were low and that none of them could achieve the top score on the reading test used. Unexpected reading difficulties may appear in adolescence and school has to be able to deal with them.
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