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'Don't Know Much about a Science Book': Do Children and Young Teens Read Science Books for Pleasure?
Jarman, Ruth; Alexander, Joy – School Science Review, 2020
Surprisingly little has been written in school-related science education literature about reading for pleasure. This article reports the findings of a survey exploring free-choice science book reading habits of children and young teens. In the survey, over 300 children aged 8--14 completed a written questionnaire. The results showed that most did…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Science Materials, Reading Materials, Children
Uslu, Mehmet Emin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The aim of the current study is to find out the possibility of transfer of affective domains of reading specifically reading habits and attitudes from L1 to EFL and the role of learners' proficiency level on these reading habits and attitudes. The study was designed as a descriptive research. The participants were 273 university-level students who…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Native Language, English (Second Language), Reading Habits
Artola, Teresa; Sastre, Santiago; Jiménez-Blanco, Amelia; Alvarado, Jesús Mª – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Attitude, motivation and interests in reading are three fundamental aspects of reading as entertainment. ACTIM-LEC is an instrument designed to measure these components, and also includes other relevant factors in establishing a reading habit, such as attitude towards study and reading preferences. The objective of the present…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Reading Interests, Reading Habits
Walker, April; Bower, Janessa; Kettler, Todd – Gifted Child Today, 2021
Despite dedication of tremendous resources to developing literary proficiencies, advanced readers may remain an underserved and understudied population. This qualitative study included nine preadolescent participants aged 10-12 years who demonstrated reading comprehension abilities within the top 10% on a national normed achievement battery. The…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Motivation
Scholes, Laura – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
A seminal body of work emerged in the 1980s recognising reading as a site for gender and class identity work. However, understandings around working-class girls' reading identities are invisible in the current Australian education policy space where gender equalities with respect to curriculum subjects have disappeared. This paper draws on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Females, Peer Acceptance
Underwood, Catherine – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2021
The most recent OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey enables educators, policy makers and the wider community to compare Australian students with each other, as well as with their counterparts across the world. PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students near the end of compulsory education have acquired the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Reading, Student Attitudes
Hannah Brunson Miles – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this action research was to address the issue of first-grade students being unengaged and unmotivated to read independently for the recommended 20-minute block of time in class. Students were also not electing to read independently during any free time they had in class. This research was designed to investigate how implementing a…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Individualized Instruction, Grade 1, Reading Motivation
Laursen, Helle Pia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Based on data from a researcher-generated activity and with the overall objective to gain insight into how students talk about themselves as readers, the study examines how, in a conversation with two classmates and a research assistant, 12-13-year-old students embrace or reject different figured worlds related to literacy. The analysis…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Interviews
Al Roomy, Muhammad; Althewini, Abdulaziz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This study examined the effect of an extensive reading online program implemented in a blended learning format to increase students' reading comprehension. The participants were Saudi freshmen students in a medical university, and the data were collected from two sources: pre- and post-test scores and an open-ended questionnaire. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Blended Learning, Medical Students
Jang, Bong Gee; Henretty, Dawnelle – Middle School Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors propose a model of four attitudinal profiles including both purpose (academic and recreational) and medium (print and digital): (1) recreational digital learning/print averse reluctant readers, (2) avid digital readers, (3) avid print readers, and (4) digital learning reluctant readers. We drew these four profiles of…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials
Clark, Nikki – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Reading skills comprise the following three categories: decoding, fluency, and comprehension. All three of these skills are necessary for students to become successful readers in and out of academic settings. Many students in special education read far below their grade level; difficulty reading is particularly challenging for such students…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Intervention, High School Students, Special Education
Bridget 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
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
Collett, Jennifer – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Drawing upon a theoretical framework that acknowledges the bidirectional relationship between local discursive acts and institutional structures, this paper analyzes classroom observations with student interviews to understand how fifth-grade multilingual learners are making sense of dialogic literacy instruction to support their reading…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Multilingualism
Pei, Yalian – ProQuest LLC, 2023
One in seventy-five college students sustains at least one mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) each academic year. Individuals with TBI, including mTBI, tend to have difficulties with passage comprehension and reading rate, along with reporting reading to be effortful. As reading is fundamental to students' academic success, contributors to reading…
Descriptors: Brain, Injuries, Self Efficacy, Reading Habits