scholarly journals Role of LIS Departments and Associations in Promoting Reading Habits

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Dr. Shantadevi. T Dr. Shantadevi. T ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Habits

Talking, Reading, and Writing on Smartphones

2020 ◽  
pp. 407-422
Author(s):  
Naomi S. Baron
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Internet Protocols ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Voice Calls ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
Communication Preference

Mobile phones have increasingly been transformed from speaking technologies to devices for reading and writing. Cost helped drive this shift since written short messages were historically less expensive than voice calls. A second factor was communication preference for texting over talking, especially among younger users. With ready Internet access on smartphones, reading habits began shifting as well. Social networking messages, along with other short texts such as weather reports or news headlines, made for obvious reading material, as did the plethora of longer written documents available online. The e-book revolution enabled readers to retrieve entire books on their phones. Mobile phones are also writing platforms. Developments in hardware and software dramatically simplified the input process. Instead of multi-taps, users now rely on virtual keyboards for easy access not only to alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks but also to sophisticated predictive texting and autocorrection. Interestingly, while technically we are writing when inputting text on smartphones, many users do not perceive such input as real “writing”—a term they reserve for writing by hand or with a computer. Additional writing issues include norms regarding so-called textisms, along with the role of culture in shaping attitudes regarding linguistic correctness. Many organizations are discontinuing voicemail systems in favor of written messaging. At the same time, voice over Internet protocols continue to grow, and small voice-activated social robots designed for home use are proliferating. The chapter closes by asking what the spoken–written balance on smartphones might look like in the future.

scholarly journals La mediación lectora en contextos internacionales. Los casos de Chile, Polonia y Portugal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Alejandro Arenas Delgado ◽  
Herminda Otero Doval ◽  
Cecylia Tatoj
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Reading Teachers ◽  
Reading Education ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
School Students ◽  
Leisure Reading ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

The present article, part of the project “Reading habits in international contexts of secondary school students. A study of educational practices for the promotion of reading” (PR2018057), reports the results of an exploratory-observational scope research extracted from that context. The main objective is to evidence research hypotheses on the training needs of reading teachers. It investigates some areas of the reading habits of Chilean, Polish and Portuguese adolescents who are in transition between primary and secondary school. There are common and divergent patterns in the answers to a questionnaire that delves into motivational and teaching aspects linked to reading education: leisure reading habits, the provenance of the books students read and the use of libraries, the hierarchization of the importance of reading, the strategies of teachers who train reading skills and also the initiatives to promote reading in schools, and their participation. In the light of results obtained, paths of educational and didactic research are proposed that allow to add value to the role of teachers as mediators of reading in the three national contexts that are part of the analysis.

scholarly journals Gothic Infections

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen
Keyword(s):  
Reading Habits ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
Narrative Control ◽  
Women's Reading ◽  
Selection Of

This article proposes, a reading of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818) as a case study for discussing infectious literature, storytelling as therapy and the interconnectedness of Gothic methodologies and medical humanities. Northanger Abbey was written in a period when women’s reading habits was a contested topic, so I will provide a quick historical overview of the period and the problematic Gothic novel, which Northanger Abbey satirizes. Where previous research has focused on Catherine Morland, the protagonist and ‘misreader’ in this Gothic satire, this article will focus on Austen’s feminized hero, Henry Tilney, and read him in the role of a mesmeric healer. His goal is to cure Catherine of her obsession with Gothic novels, in order for her to fulfil the feminine ideal of the time. The mesmeric method is to produce a crisis in the patient, however, I will show how Henry’s plan fails and he inadvertently produces a crisis in himself, and forces him to realize the extent of his own ‘reading illness’. He is ‘infected’ by the masculine literary canon, which in his mind entails literary superiority over Catherine and his sister Eleanor. Storytelling as therapy is a term that connects literature and trauma into a method of organizing experience. My analysis will focus on a selection of dialogue between the main characters and Henry’s monologues, to highlight where Austen’s hero is compelled to take narrative control as a way to control his own trauma; his troubled relationship with his father and the death of his mother.

A survey of life-long reading habits among UiTM undergraduates

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Kum Yoke Soo ◽  
Evelyn Sharmannie ◽  
Ahmad Azman
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
English Language ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Internal And External Factors

This study intents to look at the English Language reading habits of Universiti Technologi MARA Johor undergraduates for the purpose of finding out the reading culture among the undergraduates and the strategies to enhance life-long reading habits. It will thus look at the internal and external factors such as self-motivation, availability of reading materials, role of peers, role of motivators (i.e. family, teachers, government, media) and competition from modern devices (i.e. computer, video games, television etc) that challenges the acquisition of life-long reading habits.

scholarly journals La mediación lectora en contextos internacionales. Los casos de Chile, Polonia y Portugal

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-198
Author(s):  
Christian Alejandro Arenas Delgado ◽  
Herminda Otero Doval ◽  
Cecylia Tatoj
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Reading Teachers ◽  
Reading Education ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
School Students ◽  
Leisure Reading ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

The present article, part of the project “Reading habits in international contexts of secondary school students. A study of educational practices for the promotion of reading” (PR2018057), reports the results of an exploratory-observational scope research extracted from that context. The main objective is to evidence research hypotheses on the training needs of reading teachers. It investigates some areas of the reading habits of Chilean, Polish and Portuguese adolescents who are in transition between primary and secondary school. There are common and divergent patterns in the answers to a questionnaire that delves into motivational and teaching aspects linked to reading education: leisure reading habits, the provenance of the books students read and the use of libraries, the hierarchization of the importance of reading, the strategies of teachers who train reading skills and also the initiatives to promote reading in schools, and their participation. In the light of results obtained, paths of educational and didactic research are proposed that allow to add value to the role of teachers as mediators of reading in the three national contexts that are part of the analysis.

scholarly journals Promoting a reading culture in school community: how to engage reading activities cross curricula, directors, teachers, students, parents, administrative services, local authorities, public libraries and other partners – Relating a project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Bela Martins ◽  
Alexandra Marques
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Community ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Reading Activities

The main purpose of this paper is to present how an intensive collaboration between the National Portuguese Reading Plan and the School Libraries Network Programme plays an important role in the promotion of reading literacy as a baseline to develop all kinds of other literacy abilities and empower the role of school libraries and the collaborative work between the school community and the school library, by reporting on one of the most significant projects, which shows the relevance of this partnership. School libraries are a privileged structure in the school for skill development, not only in accessing information, available locally or remotely, enabling students with critical thinking, transforming information to knowledge, supporting curricula, but also in readers training and the promotion of reading habits, which is a basic tool for lifelong learning.

READING BEHAVIOUR AND PREFERENCES OF NAMIBIAN CHILDREN

Mousaion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Tötemeyer ◽  
Emmarentia Kirchner ◽  
Susan Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Time ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Good Reading

This study was motivated by the observation that most Namibian children have not developed adequate reading habits. The study gauged the percentages of Namibian children who either do or do not read in their free time. It also explored the reasons why some children do not read in their leisure time; the kinds of reading material readers are inclined to choose; whether they prefer to read either in their mother tongue or in English; and the role of traditional storytelling and oral literature as a form of pre-literacy in Namibia. The findings revealed a picture of deprivation in the schools and environment of the majority of Namibian children. Of the 1 402 Grade 6 students in seven regions of Namibia selected for the study, 77.6 per cent do not read in their free time, while 22.4 per cent, most of whom attend well-resourced, mainly urban schools, read in their free time. Many children struggle to read, and reading materials, particularly in their mother tongues are scarce. The study established relationships between the students’ reading behaviour and various other factors, including resource provision in Namibian schools, the availability of reading materials in the environment as well as the socio-economic conditions of Namibian families. Extensive recommendations have been made for government, educators, libraries, publishers and other authorities responsible for the education of children, including ways in which a more concerted effort could be made to promote good reading habits and develop the various Namibian languages.

Pre Press Gothic Infections

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen
Keyword(s):  
Reading Habits ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
Narrative Control ◽  
Women's Reading ◽  
Selection Of

This article proposes, a reading of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818) as a case study for discussing infectious literature, storytelling as therapy and the interconnectedness of Gothic methodologies and medical humanities. Northanger Abbey was written in a period when women’s reading habits was a contested topic, so I will provide a quick historical overview of the period and the problematic Gothic novel, which Northanger Abbey satirizes. Where previous research has focused on Catherine Morland, the protagonist and ‘misreader’ in this Gothic satire, this article will focus on Austen’s feminized hero, Henry Tilney, and read him in the role of a mesmeric healer. His goal is to cure Catherine of her obsession with Gothic novels, in order for her to fulfil the feminine ideal of the time. The mesmeric method is to produce a crisis in the patient, however, I will show how Henry’s plan fails and he inadvertently produces a crisis in himself, and forces him to realize the extent of his own ‘reading illness’. He is ‘infected’ by the masculine literary canon, which in his mind entails literary superiority over Catherine and his sister Eleanor. Storytelling as therapy is a term that connects literature and trauma into a method of organizing experience. My analysis will focus on a selection of dialogue between the main characters and Henry’s monologues, to highlight where Austen’s hero is compelled to take narrative control as a way to control his own trauma; his troubled relationship with his father and the death of his mother.

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