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Download full textPuripunyavanich, Mintra – rEFLections, 2021
This study explores undergraduates' attitudes toward extensive reading (ER) and reading graded readers online via Xreading.com in a large-scale ER program (ERP) involving over 5,000 students. Data were obtained from 356 students via an online questionnaire and 13 students in three focus groups. The quantitative findings showed that the students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Positive Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Direct linkBridget A. Lepore – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In order to succeed in college, students need to be able to read closely, critically, and independently. Unfortunately, large scale studies of graduating high school students in the United States have indicated that many are underprepared for college and career reading. When these students enter college, they often find themselves in a space that…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Reading Habits, Reading Skills, Reading Motivation
Cho, Young Ah; Ma, Jee Hyun – English Teaching, 2020
The present study examines the effects of schema activation and reading strategy use on L2 learners' reading comprehension, strategy use, motivation, and learner beliefs. The participants consisted of 89 Korean college students, and they were assigned to one of two reading activity groups--schema building or reading strategy instruction--or to a…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
What if Learners Are Not Involved in Reading? Reading Ability and Reading Motivation of EFL Learners
Chon, Yuah V.; Kim, Jihye – English Teaching, 2019
During reading instruction, sustaining learners' reading motivation (RM) may be a challenge but a requisite when the goal is to keep learners reading. In the context of the present study, it was examined as to how RM may be sustained in a reading course. For this purpose, information on learners' RM was collected in a semester-long university…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Benson, Nancy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Through qualitative coding and analysis of 121 literacy narratives, this study examines first-year college students' references to former reading sponsors, defined as the people, institutions, and entities that played a role in their reading development. The study was designed to locate the sponsors present in the narratives, to determine patterns…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Coding, College Freshmen, Reading Instruction
Reece Armour, Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological case study is to explore the reading attitudes and decision-making skills of college freshmen enrolled in remedial language arts courses. The theoretical framework guiding this study is qualitative phenomenology explained by Baxter and Jack (2008). This specific type of research "provides tools for…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Developmental Programs, Reading Instruction, Adults
