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Do Girls Read Differently from Boys? Adolescents and Their Gendered Reading Habits and Preferences
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Loh, Chin Ee; Sun, Baoqi; Majid, Shaheen – English in Education, 2020
Research on the gendered reading habits and preferences of boys and girls presents them as very different. This study focuses on the gendered reading habits and preferences of Singapore adolescent students (aged 12 to 17) to examine if such polarity exists in their reading habits. Drawing on survey data from 4830 adolescents in five secondary…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Habits, Adolescents, Preferences
Leisure Reading (but Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other--A Longitudinal Study across Grades 1 and 9
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Torppa, Minna; Niemi, Pekka; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Tolvanen, Asko; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija – Child Development, 2020
This study examines associations between leisure reading and reading skills in data of 2,525 students followed from age 7 to 16. As a step further from traditional cross-lagged analysis, a random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used to identify within-person associations of leisure reading (books, magazines, newspapers, and digital…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Reading, Reading Skills, Correlation
Café Culture: Promoting Empowerment and Pleasure in Adolescent Literacy Learning
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Mathers, Brandi Gribble; Stern, Amanda J. – Reading Horizons, 2012
The 160 third, seventh, and eleventh-graders involved in this study agreed, almost unanimously, that reading was "important." Participants cited the empowering benefits of reading as they justified this opinion. However, with regards to the enjoyment of reading, fewer middle and high school participants reported "liking"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Student Empowerment, Grade 3
Independent Reading and the "Social Turn:" How Adolescent Reading Habits and Motivation Relate to Cultivating Social Relationships
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Knoester, Matthew D. – Online Submission, 2010
Research suggests that independent reading outside of school is a strong indicator of school and reading success. However, studies also suggest that student recreational reading significantly decreases in the middle school years. This article explores some of the reasons adolescent students choose to read independently or are reluctant to do so.…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Independent Reading, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
The Complex World of Adolescent Literacy: Myths, Motivations, and Mysteries
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Moje, Elizabeth Birr; Overby, Melanie; Tysvaer, Nicole; Morris, Karen – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Elizabeth Birr Moje, Melanie Overby, Nicole Tysvaer, and Karen Morris challenge some of the prevailing myths about adolescents and their choices related to reading. The reading practices of youth from one urban community are examined using mixed methods in an effort to define what, how often, and why adolescents choose to read. By…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Networks, Social Capital, Novels
Telling Themselves Who They Are: What One Out-of-School Time Study Revealed about Underachieving Readers
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Alvermann, Donna E.; Hagood, Margaret C.; Heron-Hruby, Alison; Hughes, Preston; Williams, Kevin B.; Yoon, Jun-Chae – Reading Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore whether or not adolescents who are deemed underachievers and who struggle to read school-assigned textbooks will engage with popular culture texts of their own choosing (e.g., magazines, comics, TV, video games, music CDs, graffiti, e-mail, and other Internet-mediated texts). The 60 student participants,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Cartoons, Video Games, Urban Schools