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Maden, Sedat; Kara, Kürsad – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
As from the acquisition of the skill in the language acquisition and learning process, until the competent reader level is reached and afterwards, the reading skill and action should be constantly improved. For this reason, reading should be in the habit of language learners. Accordingly, in this study, it was aimed to determine the Turkish book…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Second Language Learning, Turkish, Books
White, Kari Lynn Wolf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Effective engagement with course readings can provide a pathway to success for students in higher education. However, only about one-third of college students are completing assigned readings and among those who do, many students struggle with successful interpretation and analysis of the content (Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Nontraditional Students, Reading Skills
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Siti Muniroh; Sari Karmina; Utami Widiati; Nurlaila; Dian Indah Silfia – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
This study describes Indonesian secondary school EFL teachers' and students' profiles of reading engagement, which comprises behavioral, affective, cognitive, and social dimensions. The researchers employed a survey design involving 70 teachers and 828 students of secondary schools in 50 regions in Java, Sumatra, and the Borneo Islands. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Laura Scholes – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
International studies have established that reading for enjoyment is linked to higher reading outcomes however there are local variations of the relationship and nuances associated with gender and economic contours. The aim of this study was to examine 318 Australian Year 3 (7 to 8-year-olds) boys' and girls' self-reported enjoyment for reading,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Reading Attitudes
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Chin Ee Loh – Language and Education, 2024
Drawing on data from a mobile ethnography study of 12 adolescents from one secondary school, this article proposes to examine the everyday digital reading resources and practices of Singapore adolescent youths to better understand the print and new media (fiction) leisure reading habits of adolescents. Mobile ethnography, with its capacity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Reading Attitudes
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Ruth French – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explain key aspects of teaching and learning relevant to sustaining literacy development beyond the early years of schooling, including effective teaching of more complex texts. The paper takes as its point of departure Touchstone 9 of the Foundation Touchstones promoted by the Foundation of Learning and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Sustainability, Psychological Patterns, Difficulty Level
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Gerrig, Richard J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
In this article, I use the metaphor that readers journey to narrative worlds to review research that has spanned my career. In the first section, I consider the processes that enable readers to undertake these journeys as well as the processes that allow them to participate in the narrative worlds once they have arrived. In the second section, I…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Processes, Narration, Reader Text Relationship
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Mak, Marloes; Faber, Myrthe; Willems, Roel M. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
When two people read the same story, they might both end up liking it very much. However, this does not necessarily mean that their reasons for liking it were identical. We therefore ask what factors contribute to "liking" a story, and--most importantly--how people vary in this respect. We found that readers like stories because they…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, Reading Interests
Betty McQueen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The primary purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine educators' perceptions of how comic books and graphic novels can promote literacy skills and motivation in readers. The problem was that teachers were concerned about students' lack of ability to focus on traditional novels and lack of interest in classroom reading material.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Cartoons, Literary Genres, Reading Skills
Ives, Samantha T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study's purpose was to validate a revised Story World Absorption Scale (SWAS; Kuijpers et al., 2014) as a measure of habitual adolescent reading engagement. This approach to measuring reading engagement reflects the multidimensionality and theoretical alignment that is currently missing from the reading engagement literature.…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Adolescents, Learner Engagement
Lombardi, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quasi-experimental study examined readers' perceptions of content-evaluative metadiscourse--linguistic and rhetorical signals that indicate an author's willingness (or lack thereof) to "own" the claims discussed in a text. Specific elements investigated in the study included hedging and boosting (markers of doubt or certainty),…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Reading Attitudes, Reader Text Relationship, Authors
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John Milne – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
The learning and teaching of reading continues to be a source of contention in New Zealand education. In recent years, proponents of structured literacy approaches have argued for more attention to be paid to what they term the "science of reading". They have emphasised skill development and argued against the inclusion of other…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills, Skill Development
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Geoffrey Borman – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Both correlational and experimental evidence suggests that having access to books can be a key resource for accelerating the literacy outcomes for children. Results from a 20-year study across 27 nations by Evans, Kelley, Sikora, and Treiman (2010), suggest that children growing up in homes with many books obtain 3 years more…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Minority Group Students
Prestero, Angela Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The reading abilities of students across the nation continue to be a concern. In fact, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that 67% of fourth graders read at or below grade level (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). This study was predicated on the idea that the reading attitudes and literacy knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading
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Dilek Altun – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Previous studies have presented discrepant findings of e-stories' contribution to children's narrative comprehension, which can be attributed to not only the variation of multimedia features among studies but also to learner and text features. The main goal of the present study was to expand understanding of the effect of e-stories on children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Electronic Books, Story Telling
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