What and how do Hungarian children read?

Authors

  • Péter Gombos Department of Hungarian Language and Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Pedagogy, Kaposvár University, Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29257/EA.3420

Keywords:

children's literature, reading research in Hungary, genres, digital culture and reading

Abstract

The first representative survey about reading habits in Hungary was conducted in 1964. Among others it gauged the number of people reading and what they read. Since then only four researches were pursued of the kind, thus it was time we carried out a new analysis at the end of 2017. While compiling the questionnaire and analyzing the result I had the possibility to work with data that could be interesting for researchers beyond the borders of Hungary.

In my study I focus on children in the 3–18 age range divided to age groups, and I present the types of books they read. I also examine other components of their behavior related to their reading habits (What they read apart from books, which part of the week/day they dedicate to reading, which genres they prefer etc.).

Talking about digital natives, I pay special heed to the correspondence between reading aptitude and the time they invest in using the internet and their smart phones.

Last but not least I make an attempt to sketch a general picture of Hungarian reading habits (laying special emphasis on the youth), and the changes we can notice compared to the previous surveys.

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Author Biography

  • Péter Gombos, Department of Hungarian Language and Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Pedagogy, Kaposvár University, Hungary

    I was born in 1973 in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. I acquired university degrees in Primary School Teaching, Teaching of Religion and Boarding School Teaching, Teaching of Hungarian Literature and Grammar, Communication and Media Science and Hungarian Arts and Humanities.

    I obtained my PhD at the University of Pécs in 2009. My main fields of research are related to reading and children’s literature. I am also concerned about reading pedagogy, the sociology of reading, reading strategies and reading comprehension. I used to be the leader of the Hungarian Reading Association for four years, and currently I am the vice-president of it. I am also member of the European Literacy Association and the International Literacy Association. I took part in several Hungarian and international research, and so far 216 of my publications were issued, and they were cited 165 times.*

    At present, I work as a deputy dean for scientific affairs of the Faculty of Pedagogy at the University of Kaposvár, besides I teach would-be pedagogues, stage designers and actors.

     

    Affiliation:

    Department of Hungarian Language and Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Pedagogy, Kaposvár University, Hungary

    *(Source:

    https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication?cond=authors;in;10034881&sort;publishedYear;desc&sort;category;asc&sort;type;asc&sort;subType;asc&groupBy=publishedYear,category&labelLang=hun.

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Published

2020-12-15 — Updated on 2020-12-15

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Vol. 23 (2020): EA, Escuela Abierta, 23

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What and how do Hungarian children read?. (2020). Escuela Abierta, 23, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.29257/EA.3420
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