scholarly journals “I Hate to Read-Or Do I?” Low-Achievers and Their Reading

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Gordon ◽  
Ya-Ling Lu
Keyword(s):  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Summer Reading ◽  
Low Achieving Students ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Alternative Reading

Phase 2 of the Barnstable Study of a web-based summer reading program focuses on low-achieving students who had a low participation rate in the first two years of the program. The researchers interviewed and surveyed seventy students who formed seven focus groups. This study challenges assumptions about struggling readers. Do struggling readers consider themselves readers outside of school, where they have choices that relate to what they like to do? Do they read? What do they read? Do they really hate to read? Gender and grade level emerged as factors in participation rates in the program. Student responses emphasized the importance of relevance of reading materials to reading preferences. Low achievers had a strong preference for alternative reading materials.

scholarly journals Reading Takes You Places

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Ling Lu ◽  
Carol A. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Reading Program ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Reading Behaviors ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Summer Reading ◽  
High School Grades ◽  
Low Achieving Students ◽  
Summer Reading Program ◽  
Mixed Responses

This study investigates effects of a web-based summer reading program on the reading behaviors and attitudes of adolescents. The study takes place in an American high school, grades nine through twelve. A purposive random sample of 288 students and eleven teachers ensured representation of students from each of three ability groupings. Data were collected through student surveys and teacher interviews. Findings show that students expressed satisfaction with the program, but it did not meet the needs of low achieving students. Mixed responses from teachers point to the need for consensus about the purpose of a summer reading program.

E-learning and Language and Style in Lancaster

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Short
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Web

This article reports on research conducted in the department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University from 2002 to 2005 on first-year undergraduate student performance in, and reaction to, a web-based introductory course in stylistic analysis. The main focus of this report is a comparison of student responses to the varying ways in which the web-based course was used from year to year. The description of student responses is based on an analysis of end-of-course questionnaires and a comparison of exit grades. In 2002–3, students accessed the first two-thirds of the course in web-based form and the last third through more traditional teaching. In 2003–4 the entire course was accessed in web-based form, and in 2004–5 web-based course workshops were used as part of a combined package which also involved weekly lectures and seminars. Some comparison is also made with student performance in, and responses to, the traditional lecture + seminar form of the course, as typified in the 2001–2 version of the course.

scholarly journals Developing Extensive Reading Materials Using Arabic Story Book Based on Bilingual Parallel Text/ تطوير مواد القراءة الموسعة باللغة العربية في كتاب القصة على أساس نص متواز ثنائي اللغة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Nasir ◽  
Salamatun Nafi’ah
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Parallel Text ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

This research is a research and development on Arabic extensive reading materials using storybooks based on bilingual parallel text. The purposes of this research are to find out the steps in developing Arabic extensive reading materials using storybook based on bilingual parallel text for MA NU Miftahul Falah students and to find out the feasibility of the storybooks and the students responses. This research is a type of research and development. This study uses Richey and Kleins’ model but with some modifications, the stages of this research are: Planning, which is the activity of making a product plan that will be made for a specific purpose. This stage begins with a needs analysis carried out through research and literature study. Production, which is the activity of making products based on the designs that have been made. Evaluation, namely the activity of testing and assessing how high the product has met predetermined specifications. The results of the study, namely the average validity of the storybook that has been developed with all evaluation aspects is 3.49 so it is classified as valid. The evaluation results also show that the product is suitable for use, and the average value of student responses is 84.2 and is in the very good category. Further research needs to be done to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the product with a wider sample

scholarly journals Shifting the Sands of Summer Reading

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne De Groot
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Reading Programs ◽  
Reading Interests ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Summer Reading ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Summer Reading Programs

This study investigated ways in which summer reading programs (SRPs) support children’s recreational reading interests and habits and help to promote reading and literacy throughout the summer months. The primary research question was: How do children, parents, and library staff experience their public library summer reading program? This paper will present selected findings from the study related to children’s reading experiences in school and during the summer, reading games and incentives, and designing summer reading programs that emphasize the social aspects of reading. Findings from this study suggest that school and public libraries should consider moving away from traditional summer reading programs that include reading games and rewards and focus instead on providing children, their parents, and library staff members with greater opportunities to interact with books and reading, and one another, throughout the summer.

A Study on Extensive Reading in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 680-690
Author(s):  
Diana Presadă ◽  
Mihaela Badea
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Reading For Pleasure ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Shed Light

As practicing university teachers, the authors have noticed that students tend to focus exclusively on syllabus reading materials, ignoring reading for pleasure outside the classroom. Rarely taught in ordinary university classes, extensive reading skills may play an important part in the foreign language teaching and learning process. Given these facts, the authors decided to pilot an extensive reading program at the academic level, the ultimate aim being to implement it in the future. Therefore, the purposes of the chapter are to discover students' attitudes towards extensive reading and to assess the results of the pilot as reflected in their opinions with a view to conceiving a large-scale future reading program. The study attempts to shed light on the issues triggered by the introduction of such a program into the curriculum of philological students, being mainly concerned with the practical side of the phenomenon and highlighting the interdependence between the findings and the latest theories in the field.

The Effects of Combined Training of Web-Based Problem-Based Learning and Self-Regulated Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Chia-Wen Tsai ◽  
Pei-Di Shen ◽  
Tsang-Hsiung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Course Design ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Combined Training ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Low Achieving Students ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Regulated Learning

This study explored, via quasi-experiments, the effects of the combined training in web-based problem-based learning (PBL) and self-regulated learning (SRL) on low achieving students’ skill development. Two classes of 76 undergraduates in a one-semester course titled ‘Web Page Programming and Website Planning’ were chosen for this study. Results were generally positive, showing enhanced skills of website planning and higher levels of involvement. This study provided an illustration of a promising course design and its associated implementations in the specific context of low achieving students, for which there is lack of research in the current literature.

scholarly journals Long-term Effects of Male Reading Tutors, Choice of Text and Computer-based Text on Boys’ Reading Achievement

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Laura Sokal
Keyword(s):  
Reading Achievement ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Reading Tutors ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Computer Based

Sixty-two inner-city Canadian boys identified as struggling readers participated in a 22-week intervention that examined the effects of male reading tutors, computer-based texts, and choice of reading materials. Immediately after the intervention, boys demonstrated between-group changes to reader self-perceptions and gendered views of reading but no between-group differences in achievement. Two years after the intervention’s completion, the boys’ reading comprehension achievement scores were again examined and compared to 62 non-participating boys matched at the time of the study’s onset. Results showed no significant differences between the two groups. Of the boys who participated in the intervention, working with male reading tutors and with computer-based texts did not result in higher achievement than working with female reading tutors or with print-based texts. However, boys who were not given a choice in their reading materials demonstrated reading achievement six months ahead of the boys who were given a choice. 

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