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Jie Hu; Ge Yan; Xu Wen; Yanyu Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Reading habits play an active role in promoting students' reading skills and making them prepared to participate in modern society. Gender differences regarding students' habits in the use of reading medium, amount of time spent on leisure reading, and the frequency of school-related reading and of leisure reading were examined. The relation…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Habits, Reading Materials, Recreational Reading
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Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
One of the aims for compulsory education is to diminish or alleviate differences in children's skills existing prior to school entry. However, a growing gender gap in reading development has increasingly been documented. Regrettably, there is scant evidence on whether differences between genders (favouring girls) have their roots in pre-reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Prereading Experience
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De Naeghel, Jessie; Valcke, Martin; De Meyer, Inge; Warlop, Nele; van Braak, Johan; Van Keer, Hilde – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Given the weak intrinsic reading motivation of many adolescents on the one hand and the importance of this type of motivation for reading competence on the other hand, the aim of the present study is to identify the related role of teacher behavior. To pursue this aim, a secondary analysis was carried out on PISA 2009 data. More particularly, data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Motivation, Secondary School Students, Self Determination