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Miller, Jane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
A consideration of how reading may change in retirement and old age, demonstrated in relation to five books by women.
Descriptors: Older Adults, Retirement, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading
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Philp, Hannah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
I examine the ways in which reading in the classroom is a social practice and how that social practice can produce nuanced student texts that reflect a rich understanding of what has been read. In doing so, I also consider how the reading environment allows us to manipulate and embody texts in ways that allow for a more detailed understanding than…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Literary Genres, Reading Comprehension, Semiotics
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Williams-Pierce, Caroline – Journal of Management Education, 2016
This commentary serves as an introduction to multiple scholarly fields about the value of digital media for providing contexts for and provoking learning. The author proposes that rather than considering a dichotomy between reading physical books and reading digital media, as encouraged by Cavanaugh et al. (2015), instead consider a scale of sorts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Student Development, Neurosciences, Reader Response
McQuillan, Jeff – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
In his 2016 article, "What Can Readers Read after Graded Readers?" (EJ1098660), Jeff McQuillan provided data to show that there is an adequate amount of reading material that can be read at or above 98% vocabulary coverage to provide sufficient input to acquire most of the word families from the 2,000- to the 9,000-word-family levels.…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Habits