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Chapman, Louise – English in Education, 2020
In an era of smart-phones, tablets and online gaming, it seems that a young person's motivation to pick up a book and start to read is relatively low. The article explores this claim by investigating the reading habits of a class of 23 female students at a single sex school in the south-east of England. The case-study particularly focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Adolescents, Females
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Merga, Margaret K. – English in Education, 2016
The benefits of regular recreational reading for literacy development have been widely acknowledged, and as such, encouraging children to be life-long readers is an educational imperative. Teachers who are models of keen recreational reading can play an important role in fostering a keen love of reading in children, so that they regularly engage…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods