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Kaman, Safak; Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: In today's world, the rapid spread of technology affects educational life. It has become common place in many countries to read digital texts on tablet computers, preferred for their portability, and long charging times; projects are done to improve educational quality in many countries. However, research is limited about how reading…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 4, Reading Attitudes
Ozturk, Gulsah; Ohi, Sarah – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
The effect of digital literacy practices upon young children's learning is a contentious and growing area for research and debate. Nowadays, children encounter many different types of texts through their everyday engagement with digital technologies. The study reported here investigated the relationships between 6 and 7-year-old children's home…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Clark, Christina; Teravainen-Goff, Anne – National Literacy Trust, 2018
The link between literacy and health has been evidenced quite well, with studies indicating that people who struggle with literacy are also more likely to have poor physical health. However, what we know about the relationship between mental wellbeing and literacy is much more meagre. There is some evidence to suggest that higher levels of mental…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Child Health
Tsvetkova, Milena I. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2016
The subject of this article are the factors and reasons for the bad results in reading of the Bulgarian 15-year-old students in PISA's international studies. The reference points of the analysis are the critical results from the last four studies--2000, 2006, 2009 and 2012. The aim of this analysis is to bring up for discussion unformulated topics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Bray, Jeffrey A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This document describes experimental research conducted with the objective of better understanding adults' self-regulatory decision-making (e.g., study choice) process in reading for comprehension. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which individuals' self-regulatory process may be influenced by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decision Making, Self Efficacy, Reading Processes
Clark, Christina; Teravainen, Anne – National Literacy Trust, 2017
Numerous national and international studies have explored reading for enjoyment in connection to reading skill as well as to other reading variables, such as reading motivation and reading frequency. These studies tend to show that reading for enjoyment is an important predictor of reading skill, and is linked with how often children and young…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Recreational Activities, Learner Engagement
Anderson, Kimberly L.; Atkinson, Terry S.; Swaggerty, Elizabeth A.; O'Brien, Kevin – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
At start-up of a book distribution programme (Dolly Parton's Imagination Library) in a southeastern United States community, we examined baseline relationships between at-home shared book reading (SBR) and children's language/literacy abilities and skills at kindergarten entry. One hundred fifty-two parent/child dyads participated; children (53%…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Books, Emergent Literacy
Jenner, Tim – Teaching History, 2019
Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal was more ambitious: to integrate…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Scholarship, Reading Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
Conducted every five years, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assesses international trends in the reading comprehension of young students in their fourth year of schooling--an important transition point in children's development as readers. PIRLS was designed to complement the International Association for the Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
Mackey, Margaret – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
Often the difference between a successful and unsuccessful reader is that the former is simply better at finding enjoyable books to read. The capacity to select appealing reading is not developed in classrooms where the decision about what book to read is made by someone other than the reader: the teacher, the curriculum planner, the person who…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Material Selection, Reading Habits, Summer Programs
Lanphier, Tonya Scott; Carini, Robert M. – Community College Enterprise, 2021
This two-year case study summarizes the views of students, instructors, and administrators toward a learning community program that served first-year developmental reading students at a public two-year college. One-on-one interviews and focus groups revealed that semester-long learning communities helped students overcome obstacles toward academic…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Developmental Studies Programs, Two Year College Students, Remedial Reading
Tijms, Jurgen; Stoop, Mirthe A.; Polleck, Jody N. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Reading skills and social-emotional competencies are two important skills for both academic achievement and long-term quality of life. The present study evaluated the effects of a school-based intervention to promote reading skills and social-emotional competencies in young adolescents from urban, low socioeconomic status (SES) communities in…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Books, Clubs, Intervention
Wang, Fei-Yu – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This study unveils a tertiary EFL reading teacher's reader identity and its interconnectedness with her pedagogical decisions through narrative inquiry. Community of Practice was employed to elucidate the sources of this reading teacher's reader identity and the interplay between that and her teaching practice. Findings from the categorical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, College Faculty
Mikami, Akihiro – TESOL Journal, 2017
Although many studies state the benefits of extensive reading (ER) for language learning, this practice is not common in language classrooms. Because few studies have investigated the status of ER in second language classrooms, this study looks at past and current ER practice among Japanese students of English as a foreign language (EFL) and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Shepard, Courtney A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adolescents' motivation to read continues to decline. The purpose of this embedded single case study was to explore adolescent reading motivation to determine some ways in which adolescents are motivated to read. Through purposeful sampling, the participants included seven twelfth grade students and three English Language Arts teachers in grades…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Reading Motivation, Grade 12, Adolescents