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Latent Profiles of Reading Motivation in Adolescent Native-Spanish-Speaker Multilingual Learners
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Griffin, Robert A.; Mindrila, Diana; Farran, Lama K. – Reading Psychology, 2022
Reading motivation may elucidate discrepancies in reading achievement among multilingual high school students whose first language is Spanish. Utilizing a person-centered approach to investigate underlying reading motivation profiles among N = 174 adolescent native Spanish speakers (NSS), analyses yielded three latent profiles of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Spanish Speaking, Gender Differences, Self Concept
Positive Reading Attitudes of Low-Income Bilingual Latinos
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Bussert-webb, Kathy M.; Zhang, Zhidong – Reading Psychology, 2018
Many assume low-income, emergent bilingual Latinos have poor reading attitudes. To investigate this issue, we surveyed 1,503 Texas public high school students through stratified cluster sampling to determine their reading attitudes. Most represented Latinos and mixed-race Latinos/Whites who heard Spanish at home and whose mother tongue was…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students, Student Surveys, High School Students
Reading Motivation in Bi/Multilingual Latinx Adolescents: An Exploratory Structural Equation Model
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Griffin, Robert A.; Farran, Lama K.; Mindrila, Diana – Reading Psychology, 2020
This study investigated reading motivation among high school bi/multilingual students whose first language was Spanish. Latinx English Learners (N = 171) from four southeastern, suburban high schools completed the Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile (AMRP; Pitcher et al., 2007), a survey that proposes to measure two dimensions of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Hispanic American Students