Objective: The goal of this study is to research how mother’s literacy interaction
influences children’s interest in vocabulary and reading.
Methods: The research subjects selected were 120 children who were three
to four-year-old and their mothers. This study conducted questionnaires about
the literacy interaction of the mothers. This study also surveyed vocabulary
and interest in reading of the children by directly visiting the institutes and
by researching the subjects individually. This study used technical statistics,
Person’s product- moment correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis
in order to analyze the collected data.
Results: The results of this study are summarized and concluded as follows.
First, open interaction among the sub-areas of a mother's literacy interaction
significantly affected children's vocabulary. Second, a mother's literacy interaction
with children had no direct impact on the child's interest in reading.
Conclusion/Implications: The mother’s literacy interaction could have a correlation
with the vocabulary development of three to four-year-old children,
and a mother's application of open interaction could significantly influence
the receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary of children.