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Jie Hu; Ge Yan; Xu Wen; Yanyu Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Reading habits play an active role in promoting students' reading skills and making them prepared to participate in modern society. Gender differences regarding students' habits in the use of reading medium, amount of time spent on leisure reading, and the frequency of school-related reading and of leisure reading were examined. The relation…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Habits, Reading Materials, Recreational Reading
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Chin Ee Loh; Nur Fitri Shazwini Binte Rosli; Maya Ziqing Krishnan – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
Portable mobile technologies and high-speed access to the internet has led to the development of new online-first reading materials such as Korean Manhwa or webtoons, designed for quick consumption on mobile devices. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 11 adolescent girls aged 14 to 15 years old, this study examines why and how adolescents read…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Cartoons
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Lisa M. Domke – Reading Teacher, 2024
Because dual-language books (DLBs) print the entire text in two languages nearby on the page, they have great potential for supporting children's biliteracy development by providing contexts to compare/contrast languages. However, little is known about how children read DLBs independently and how they may/may not use such characteristics to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning