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Dela Rosa, John Paul Obillos – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
The 21st century educational platform clamors for the affordance of learner autonomy and empowerment more than control and coercion. This study, therefore considers the reading preferences, motivations, issues, and other factors that govern the choice of literary texts from the perspectives of students towards designing a relevant literature…
Descriptors: Program Design, Age Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement