Literacy Skills Seem to Fuel Literacy Enjoyment, Rather than Vice Versa

Autor/inn/en	van Bergen, Elsje; Hart, Sara A.; Latvala, Antti; Vuoksimaa, Eero; Tolvanen, Asko; Torppa, Minna
Titel	Literacy Skills Seem to Fuel Literacy Enjoyment, Rather than Vice Versa
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 26 (2023) 3, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (van Bergen, Elsje) ORCID (Hart, Sara A.) ORCID (Latvala, Antti) ORCID (Vuoksimaa, Eero) ORCID (Tolvanen, Asko) ORCID (Torppa, Minna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.13325
Schlagwörter	Literacy; Learner Engagement; Foreign Countries; Literature Appreciation; Environmental Influences; Children; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Ausland; Literarische Wertung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Child; Kind; Kinder; Finnland
Abstract	Children who like to read and write tend to be better at it. This association is typically interpreted as enjoyment impacting engagement in literacy activities, which boosts literacy skills. We fitted direction-of-causation models to partial data of 3690 Finnish twins aged 12. Literacy skills were rated by the twins' teachers and literacy enjoyment by the twins themselves. A bivariate twin model showed substantial genetic influences on literacy skills (70%) and literacy enjoyment (35%). In both skills and enjoyment, shared-environmental influences explained about 20% in each. The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero. The genetic influences on skills influenced enjoyment, likely via the skills[right arrow]enjoyment path. This indicates an active gene-environment correlation: children with an aptitude for good literacy skills are more likely to enjoy reading and seek out literacy activities. To a lesser extent, it was also the shared-environmental influences on children's skills that propagated to influence children's literacy enjoyment. Environmental influences that foster children's literacy skills (e.g., families and schools), also foster children's love for reading and writing. These findings underline the importance of nurturing children's literacy skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01