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Renée Claes; Jana Laga; Katrijn Denies; Nele Bleukx; Jonas Dockx; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Providing a rich home literacy environment (HLE) is considered to contribute to the development of students' reading comprehension. However, less research attention has been given to the underlying mechanisms that influence this relationship, including potential mediating characteristics. The present study aims to assess whether…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
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Kambara, Hitomi – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
This study employed the mixed method explanatory sequential design to investigate Japanese fourth grade students' reading motivation. A total of 102 students first completed the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ) to investigate the differences in reading motivation among different dimensions in three categories (Competence and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Children, Reading Motivation
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Villiger, Caroline; Niggli, Alois; Wandeler, Christian; Kutzelmann, Sabine – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study examined the effects of a school/home-based intervention program designed to enhance the reading motivation and comprehension of Swiss fourth graders (N = 713). In order to identify the specific contribution of the home environment, the program was implemented in one group "without" (N = 244) and in one group "with"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Experimental Groups, Comparative Analysis