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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"pleasure reading"”.
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Black Nerds Pleasure Reading Choices: Race, Representation and Prosocial Skills
… about what African Canadian Black youth read for pleasure. The subject of this study is a group of young people who belong to the Black nerd subculture (aka Blerds) of urban Toronto. The participants are between 16 and 25 years of age and identify as predominantly working class. Research conducted …
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Reading Motivation In Upper Elementary Students: How Children Explain Reading For Pleasure
… study investigated the phenomenon of the pleasure reading experience in fourth and fifth grade students. The purpose of the study was to create a dialogue with children regarding their leisure reading habits in an effort to inform our understanding of aliteracy, a term that refers to …
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Researching the effects of reading for pleasure in English on adult esl learners' acquisition of English
… of second language acquisition believe that reading for pleasure in a second language facilitates learning of that language, that it may be even more valuable to the learner than direct instruction. Little empirical evidence exits, however, to imply the effectiveness of pleasure reading for …
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Examining the effect of motivational intervention on reading expectancies for success and task values of rural high school students : a quantitative study.
… of digital displacement, adolescent recreational reading is declining (Twenge et al., 2019). According to a recent Pew survey, 96% of teen respondents reported daily online engagement, and close to 50% described that engagement as almost constant (Faverio & Sidoti, 2024). Meanwhile, survey data …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
… the notion of extensive or free voluntary reading (Day & Bamford, 1998; Krashen, 1993) has emerged that L2 learners should be given more pleasure reading by minimizing a burden look-up behavior. At the same time, technology innovation has made it possible for extensive reading to occur …