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Lewis, Junko Yokota, Home Literacy Environment and
Experiences: A Description of Asian American Homes and
Recommended Intervention. Doctor of Philosophy
(Reading), August, 1988, 238 pp., 52 tables,
bibliography, 127 titles.
The purpose of this study was to describe the home
literacy environments and literacy experiences of a
select group of Asian American children, and to
recommend an intervention program based on the findings.
The target population was the families which sent their
children to a Saturday Asian language and culture school
while sending them to public schools during the week,
because of their expressed interest in literacy and the
probability of their being the group to most likely
benefit from intervention.
The Home Literacy Environment and Literacy
Experiences survey was initially sent out and results
tallied and quantified. Upon placing the returned
surveys into groups of "high," "middle," and "low" home
literacy environment and literacy experiences, a sample
of five "high" and five "low" families was selected for
further study. Home visits, interviews, field notes,
collection of artifacts and other methods of data
collection provided a clearer picture of the state of
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Lewis, Junko Yokota. Home Literacy Environment and Experiences: A Description of Asian American Homes and Recommended Intervention, dissertation, August 1988; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330961/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .