The attitude of 6-8-year-old pupils towards tales
The attitude of 6-8-year-old pupils towards tales

Summary/Abstract: In 1910, the Hungarian Society for Child Study (Magyar Gyermektanulmanyi Tarsasag) – initiated by Laszlo Nagy – launched a survey conducted among 6-8-year-old pupils, which was evaluated and processed by Laszlo Nogrady in 1917. Nearly 50 years later, Bela Toth thoroughly re-visited the issue of literary interest among young pupils. Since Toth’s research, another 50 years passed, and pupil interest might have also altered. The present empirical research analyses the attitudes of first-graders towards tales. The research respondents were 267 first grade primary school pupils from Vojvodina who were personally and individually interviewed based on the broadened version of the Toth interview questionnaire. The research results provide a complex image of the 6-8-year-old pupils’ reading habits as well as of who reads to them at home, what reading skills they dispose of, what kinds of literary texts they are interested in, what type of tale heroes they prefer. The research results not only provide valuable information upon the possibilities of developing pupils’ reading habits, but also a basis for the re-writing of textbooks and readers. The findings of the research may also be useful for libraries regarding their re-stocking phases.

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