Adequate reading behaviour is vital for text comprehension across fields. In today's professional environment, a well …-developed reading skill is also expected in English as a second language (EL2), which happens already in college, although transition to … college-level reading may be difficult even in the first language. It is therefore useful to analyse students’ use of reading …

everyday reading experiences. Design/methodology/approach The study uses theoretical bricolage that puts existing reading … research into conversation with theories of time and temporalities. Findings Three registers of time in reading are put forward …: (1) libraries and books as places that readers return to again and again over time, (2) temporalized reading bodies and …

Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute (MHPI) with a purpose to explore their reading interests and to get an idea of how they had read … the required school reading books - whether in full, in short summaries, or in excerpts. The same survey was conducted in … MHPI became part in 2012. We discovered that high-school students did not read all dramatic and epic required reading books …

This study investigated the effects of reciprocal peer-questioning instruction to enhance the English reading … employed a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental comparison group design in college English reading courses in a complete … semester. A total of 78 EFL college students enrolled in compulsory English reading courses participated in this study; 38 …

, but also by poor comprehensive reading skills. She claims that indifferent, or shallow, reading and writing in university …, studies the factors that influence the development of reading competencies at each of these stages, and reveals the major … killers of interest in reading.Proper development of comprehensive reading skills may be achieved, first of all, by balancing …

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 …

from prior research and three recent case studies involving non-fiction reading, this paper considers heterogeneity in … modes of reading and the central role of libraries in fostering non-fiction reading cultures. Design …/methodology/approach Findings from three recent case studies of non-fiction reading about relationship advice; developmental disorders; and …

find the reading materials best suited to them. Results indicate that progress in technology implementation is favoring the …