The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between parent recognition for early English education, English home literacy environment, and self-esteem or anxiety of children. To achieve this purpose, this study planed for enhancing chi... The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between parent recognition for early English education, English home literacy environment, and self-esteem or anxiety of children. To achieve this purpose, this study planed for enhancing children’s self-esteem through Home literacy environments. The subjects in this study were 165 pairs of five-year-old to thirteen-year old children and their respective parents living in Seoul and Gyounggi-do who were users of five public libraries. The five public libraries each store more than two thousand English books and are located in Seoul, South Korea. With regard to the collected data, a frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, and Pearson's correlations were executed using SPSS 21.0. The results of the study are as follows. First, parents preferred children studying English on a daily regular basis, wanted to hear of their children’s English progress, and finally, were willing to learn successful English methods in teaching their children English. In addition, parents preferred utilizing childhood English specialist programs rather than native English teachers. Parents chose natural language acquisition as a key factor to 'early childhood English Education'. In addition parents selected 'self-esteem, good personality, and creativity as a significant aspects in 'early education'. Second, children preferred reading children’s stories, fantasy novels, comic books, science books, and biographies in that order. Many children used English books with audio files. This elucidated a necessity to encourage reading by means of audio files. Third, parent recognition for early English education and home English literacy environment did not have a statistical correlation. However, English literacy within the amount of English book each family has, starting points of parents reading English aloud to children, frequency of children asking their parents for English books, and children’s time spent watching Korean television all had correlations with parent recognition for early English education. Fourth, home English literacy environment and children’s self-concept were positively correlated. Thus, the amount of English book each family has, parents reading aloud to children, library visits and frequency in lending English books, and limits on time spent on watching Korean television were all correlated. This implies starting point of reading English books aloud to their children is after the acquiring of the first speaking language which is the subsequent 2-year-old after it. However, home English literacy environments and children’s anxiety were not statistically correlated. Fifth, there was a huge gap of self-esteem between children who read books on a daily basis and those who did not read even on a monthly basis. As such, we need to inform parents and teachers of the correlations between children’s English ability, academic achievement, reading books and self-esteem. Sixth, there was no significant correlation between parents’ social classes, household income, and children’s self-esteem in English. In other words it was home English literacy environment that affected children’s self-esteem. There are significant correlation between children’s levels of self-esteem, home English literacy environment and anxiety. In addition children’s self-esteem in using English was related to home English literacy environments. Such self-esteem was correlated with English reading activities in particular. The statistics illustrated a correlation between the children’s self-esteem and activities such as parents reading aloud to their children, visiting libraries, reading alone, etc. In conclusion, homes, schools, communities, education policy experts should inform and support ‘Effects and cultures on reading English books.’ Moreover, we should develop parent education programs on pleasure reading in order to help children and parents develop a mutual interest in reading English books.
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