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Troubling Trends: An International Decline in Attitudes toward Reading. IEA Compass: Briefs in Education. Number 8
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Hooper, Martin – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Trend results from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) show a decline from 2001 through 2016 in most countries in fourth graders' and their parents' reading attitudes, as measured by students like reading and parents like reading scale scores. Average students like reading scale scores, as reported by the students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Reading Achievement
Examining the Domain-Specificity of Language Mindset: A Case of L2 Reading Comprehension
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Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Pourtahmasb, Fereshteh; Li, Chengchen – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: The present study investigated the domain-specificity of language mindset with a focus on foreign language (L2) reading mindset. We further examined whether L2 reading mindset could predict several L2 reading-specific outcomes, including L2 reading achievement and L2 reading emotions above and beyond general language mindset.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes
Enriching the Construct Structure of L2 Reading Motivation: Learners' Attitudes in Focus
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Akbari, Hadi; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghazanfari, Mohammad; Ghapanchi, Zargham – Reading Psychology, 2019
The systematic study of second language (L2) reading motivation has been a more recent topic in L2 motivation literature. The purpose of the current study was to highlight the role of L2 reading attitudes in developing the construct of L2 reading motivation. Participants of the study included 192 Iranian EFL learners at B1 level of language…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Attitude toward Reading: L1 or L2 or Both
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Akbari, Hadi; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghazanfari, Mohammad; Shahriari, Hesamodin – SAGE Open, 2017
L2 reading attitude has been the subject of more recent studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and many have attempted to define this construct and find its correlates such as gender and L1 and L2 proficiency level. This study builds on the previous studies and aims at highlighting the connection between L2 and L1 reading attitudes and…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
About PIRLS 2016
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International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2016
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is the fourth assessment in the current trend series, following PIRLS 2001, 2006, and 2011. There were 61 participants in PIRLS 2016, including 50 countries and 11 benchmarking entities (e.g., regions of countries as well as additional grades or language groups from the participating…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Grade 4
An Elaboration on the Effect of Reading Anxiety on Reading Achievement
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Mohammadpur, Bijan; Ghafournia, Narjes – English Language Teaching, 2015
The present study was an elaboration on the effect of foreign language anxiety on reading comprehension achievement of Iranian EFL learners. The participants comprised 100 BA students, doing General English Course in different academic fields at Islamic University of Neyshabur. The participants took a reading proficiency test of TOEFL and answered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement