Abstract:

This study presents further research results solved by project VEGA VEGA 1/0455/18 - Research and Development of Reading of Younger School Pupils. It follows the results published in the article Social context of child reading in ontogenetic comparison (hereby: Babiaková, S. - Kasáčová, B.). In this text, the social preferences of younger pupils have been compared internationally. There were three research samples of pupils aged 10-11 who attend the 4th year of primary education. The research samples consisted of 693 Slovak children, 254 Czech pupils and 268 Polish pupils. All samples of respondents were divided into four groups according to the reader level by the same strategy. We created specific subgroups of reading level based on sequential theory resulting from respondents´ answers in focused interviews: reader enthusiast “A”, reader with interest “I”, non-reader without problems “G”, non-reader with problems “N ". We focused on comparing Slovak, Czech and Polish children according to how some factors in the social context in three countries correlated the reading of different reading levels.

The results show significant differences in the responses of Slovak, Czech and Polish pupils. Less Polish than Slovak pupils say that parents enjoy their reading. Polish pupils less than Slovak and Czech like to read to somebody. Most pupils in all national groups do not like reading aloud in front of the whole class. All groups are most often consulted with their mother when choosing reading, Slovak children are least consulted with their father. They discuss most about their reading experience with their mother, less with their father. Teachers are rarely mentioned as counselors in all national samples. The paper also focuses on the comparison of the social context of reading subgroups: A - reader enthusiast, I - reader with interest, G - reader without problems, N - reader with problems.

Based on the results of our research, we tried to find and compare experiences from three countries, SK, CZ, PL and formulate “good experiences” for developing pupils' reading in school and in the family.

Keywords:

Social context, young readers, international comparison.