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Non-at-Risk Adolescents' Attitudes towards Reading in a Singapore Secondary School
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Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy; Pereira, Delfin – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
In this paper, we examine the various nuanced dimensions of adolescents' dispositions towards reading in one secondary school in Singapore, where a high-stakes examination culture often threatens to colonise the practices of leisure reading. Our focus is on the better and more avid readers as they were the ones that developed the more negative…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Student Motivation