#3637. Early literacy in Arabic: the role of SES, home literacy environment, mothers’ early literacy beliefs and estimation of their children’s literacy skills

October 2026publication date
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Journal’s subject area:
Linguistics and Language;
Education;
Speech and Hearing;
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology;
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Abstract:
The study focuses on the beliefs of mothers to early literacy, and the relations between their beliefs and their children’s actual early literacy skills. In preschools, we assessed children’s letter knowledge, phonological awareness, word writing and reading. Results showed that mothers were aware of their children’s early literacy skills yet they over-estimated them. In a series of hierarchical regression analyses, we found that family socio-economic status (SES) significantly explained all of the children’s early literacy skills. Mothers’ general beliefs regarding the importance of the HLE and their estimation of their child’s literacy skills explained children’s skills beyond SES and HLE. The study has educational implications relating to the promotion of children’s early literacy skills within the family.
Keywords:
Early literacy; Literacy environment; Parents’ beliefs

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