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Direct linkLee, Yongjun; Jang, Bong Gee; Conradi Smith, Kristin – Reading Psychology, 2021
Motivation and engagement play a crucial role in literacy development and achievement. However, the construct of reading engagement has become blurred and ambiguous, both in research and in discussions of practice. In order to guide future research and to extend our existing understanding of reading engagement into classroom practice, this study…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Motivation, Reading Habits, Learner Engagement
Merga, Margaret K.; Ferguson, Catherine – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
Reading for pleasure is an undervalued but highly beneficial practice conferring a range of educative and socio-emotional advantages. School librarians may play a key role in supporting reading for pleasure and associated literature advocacy; however, relatively little is known about how reading for pleasure may be valued within the job…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role Perception, Value Judgment
Download full textMerga, Margaret K. – School Library Research, 2017
Understanding how social influences can foster avid book reader identification is a key research goal that warrants further investigation beyond a limited early-years lens. The author's 2015 International Study of Avid Book Readers (ISABR) explored, as one of its key research questions, the influence positive social agents can have on avid book…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Social Influences, Influences, Authors
Tenopir, Carol; Wilson, Concepcion S.; Vakkari, Pertti; Talja, Sanna; King, Donald W. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2010
Surveys of academic staff in Australia, Finland, and the United States from 2004-2007 reveal reading patterns of e-articles by academics that can be used to measure the purpose and value of e-reading and to demonstrate the value of library-provided electronic journal collections. Results can also be used to compare differences across subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Libraries, Electronic Journals, Reading Habits
