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Jang, Bong Gee; Ryoo, Ji Hoon; Smith, Kristin Conradi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
A growing body of research has highlighted the important role attitudes play for adolescent readers, but few have examined differences in attitudes across purposes and contexts. With shifts in literacy moving students' reading habits from traditional texts (e.g., books and magazines) to more digital contexts, it becomes necessary that we…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Jang, Bong Gee; Henretty, Dawnelle – Middle School Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors propose a model of four attitudinal profiles including both purpose (academic and recreational) and medium (print and digital): (1) recreational digital learning/print averse reluctant readers, (2) avid digital readers, (3) avid print readers, and (4) digital learning reluctant readers. We drew these four profiles of…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials
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Farkas, Wendy A.; Jang, Bong Gee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
This 12-week mixed-methods study examined an 8th-grade English language arts curriculum designed to increase participants' (N = 62) reading comprehension and reading motivation. Data consisted of demographic information, pre/post standardized reading comprehension scores, reading motivation survey scores, and participants' periodic semistructured…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties, English Curriculum