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Debrah, Cecilia Agyeiwah Agyemang Owusu; Baah, Johnson – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study sought to explore the reading culture of students in pre-tertiary technical institutions from two Municipalities in Ghana. The study adopted a descriptive observational cross-sectional study design to understand the phenomenon under study. The population of the study consisted of two hundred respondents who were purposively sampled from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Reading Material Selection
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Stoffelsma, Lieke – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: This study explores the English literacy practices of students in Ghana, in particular their time spent on reading, the availability of reading resources and their use in the curriculum, and the importance of reading from the perspectives of students and lecturers. Methods: Student diaries (6,364 reported hours) and interviews (12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy
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Stoffelsma, Lieke; Spooren, Wilbert – Educational Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to fill in the blanks on the unexplored map of reading behaviours, attitudes, and self-concept of teacher education students in Ghana. Secondly, it investigates whether the negative perceptions of lecturers from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the University of Education Winneba…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Self Concept