This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …

reading material. The survey revealed a high preference towards books written by authors from national origin than … studies available in LIS literature related to reading preferences, study the general aspects such as frequency of library … visit, the favourite place of reading, the purpose of library visit, gender-wise distribution of library visit, and time …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the placement of the skill of reading in models devoted to information behaviour and …. Findings Much thinking on information behaviour tends to assume that reading takes place either for leisure purposes or to … support study, whilst information literacy (IL) frameworks typically either emphasise higher-order reading skills or present …

scores of reading, listening, speaking and writing. The findings also showed that the participants in the experimental group …

developing the cognitive and intellectual abilities of learners via reading and the introduction of mobile technology or M …

This quantitative study focuses on online metacognitive reading strategies used by 39 Iranian postgraduate students … online metacognitive reading strategies used mostly by internal locus of control students rather than external locus of … control students. There were clear interrelationships among types of metacognitive reading strategies used and internal locus …

As online coursework become more popular, students with disabilities that need vocabulary support for reading …