"Encouraging Family Literacy in Spanish-Speaking Homes" by Christian Peña and Brad Wilcox
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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

family literacy, Spanish-speaking homes, Conexiones, Latino families

College

David O. McKay School of Education

Department

Teacher Education

Abstract

In the fall of 2008, I founded a service program called Conexiones. This service program seeks to organize and send Brigham Young University students into the homes of local Latino families to encourage literacy by reading with the children and parents. The program provides no curriculum, but relies heavily on the volunteers and participant families developing close friendships and thereby increasing the positive experience related to reading. Over the last year and half, Conexiones has grown from an idea to a pilot semester that involved two families and four volunteers and most recently to a university sponsored service organization with forty-five families and over seventy volunteers. Establishing Conexiones was to be the thrust of my research project, but in conjunction with the program, I wanted to secure quantifiable data that would provide proof of the program’s effectiveness. Developing the methods for collecting this data proved to be very helpful in guiding Conexiones and how it was developed and run. Unfortunately, due to challenges involved in collecting the data, I do not have anything quantifiable to report at this time. However, I feel that through relating information about the growth of the program and how it has progressed, as well as relating the interest and support that the program has generated, I can provide qualitative evidence of its significance.

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