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Building Reading Resilience: Re-Thinking Reading for the Literary Studies Classroom
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Douglas, Kate; Barnett, Tully; Poletti, Anna; Seaboyer, Judith; Kennedy, Rosanne – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
This paper introduces the concept of "reading resilience": students' ability to read and interpret complex and demanding literary texts by drawing on advanced, engaged, critical reading skills. Reading resilience is a means for rethinking the place and pedagogies of close reading in the contemporary literary studies classroom. Our…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Resilience (Psychology), Reading, Literary Criticism
Cultures of Learning: Critical Reading in the Social and Applied Sciences.
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Kirkpatrick, Andy; Mulligan, Denise – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2002
Compares course requirements and student reading practices in a selection of units in business, engineering, health science, and social science and the findings challenge prevailing ideas of what constitutes tertiary literacy in Australian universities. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Critical Reading, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Patterns and Preferences in Recreational Reading.
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Delin, Catherine R.; And Others – Australian Library Journal, 1995
Describes a questionnaire study of Australian undergraduates and a community sample that investigated the reading of books as a recreational activity and considered individual characteristics. Topics include the amount and nature of reading, attitudes toward reading, measures of social resources, scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Community Study, Correlation, Demography, Foreign Countries