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Gender differences in reading medium, time, and text types: Patterns of student reading habits and the relation to reading performance
Reading habits play an active role in promoting students’ reading skills and making them prepared to participate in modern society. Gender...
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The mediating effects of reading amount and strategy use in the relationship between intrinsic reading motivation and comprehension: differences between Grade 4 and Grade 6 students
There has been a significant volume of research studying the effect of individuals’ motivation on reading comprehension. The findings of previous...
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Continuous texts or word lists? Exploring the effects and the process of repeated reading depending on the reading material and students’ reading abilities
Repeated reading (RR) is often recommended for promoting reading fluency, but it is unclear whether continuous texts or word lists should be used....
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Reading and Time
This chapter examines how participants reported that the lockdown period had affected the amount that they read. We begin by providing an overview of...
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The simple view of reading and its broad types of reading difficulties
Common depictions of the simple view of reading (SVR), in both research and practice, describe reading comprehension difficulties by using the...
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Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971...
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Examining the relations between mothers’ reading skills, home literacy environment, and Chinese children’s word reading across contexts
We examined the relations between mothers’ reading skills, home literacy environment (HLE), and children’s emergent literacy skills and word reading...
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Longitudinal relations between literacy instruction and early reading achievement: findings from classroom observations in Grades 1–3
The current study examined the relation between the amount of literacy instruction and student reading achievement (word reading and reading...
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Chinese secondary students’ achievement goal profiles in reading: associations with antecedents and consequences
The present study investigated achievement goal profiles and their antecedents and consequences among a sample of 823 Chinese secondary students in...
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Effects of teacher knowledge of early reading on students’ gains in reading foundational skills and comprehension
The importance of having a highly qualified teacher in every classroom is an educational necessity. Determining which teacher characteristics define...
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Impact of text-to-speech features on the reading comprehension of children with reading and language difficulties
This study investigated the reading comprehension scores of students with reading and language difficulties after reading a passage with and without...
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Joint book reading, library visits and letter teaching in families: relations to parent education and children’s reading behavior
In line with the Matthew-effect in reading, reading comprehension and leisure time reading tend to be reciprocally related. Whereas prior research...
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Eye movements and reading comprehension performance: examining the relationships among test format, working memory capacity and reading comprehension
The ability to form a mental model of a text is an essential component of successful reading comprehension (RC), and purpose for reading can...
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Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic An Applied Linguistic Perspective
This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to...
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Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills?
PurposeThis study examines the developmental interplay between silent reading fluency and reading comprehension from Grade 1 to Grade 9 (age 7 to 15)...
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The impact of orthographic knowledge on reading development in German third graders
Orthographic knowledge (i.e., the knowledge of conventions of a written language) has been identified as a predictor of both basic and higher-level...
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Heterogeneity in reading achievement and mindset of readers with reading difficulties
Recent research has focused on evaluating the relation between mindset and reading achievement. We used exploratory factor mixture models (E-FMMs) to...
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The relation between reading and externalizing behavior: a correlational meta-analysis
Reading proficiency is important because it has life-long consequences and influences success in other academic areas. Many students with behavior...
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What explains children’s digital word reading performance in L2?
Word reading fluency is crucial for early L2 development. Moreover, the practice of digital reading has become increasingly common for both children...
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Writing about the significance of historical agents: the effects of reading and writing instruction
Historians often present their interpretation of the past in written accounts. In order to gain deeper knowledge of the discipline of history,...
