Influences on Australian adolescents' recreational reading

Competence in literacy skills has long been associated with educational, vocational and social achievement. Since research indicates that reading as a recreational pursuit improves students' outcomes on a range of literacy measures, supporting adolescent reading in an age of personal media is a...

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Published in:The Australian journal of language and literacy 2018-02, Vol.41 (1), p.44-56
Main Authors: Rutherford, Leonie, Merga, Margaret Kristin, Singleton, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Applied Linguistics
Education
Influences
Language Education
Literacy education
Literature appreciation
Multimethod techniques
Reading
Reading ability
Reading habits
Reading preferences
Recreation
Recreational reading
Secondary education
Secondary school students
Student engagement
Text messaging
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Summary:Competence in literacy skills has long been associated with educational, vocational and social achievement. Since research indicates that reading as a recreational pursuit improves students' outcomes on a range of literacy measures, supporting adolescent reading in an age of personal media is a key issue for policy makers in fields as diverse as education, library science, youth programming and arts policy. In order to be effective advocates of reading in this digital era, these diverse stakeholders need to remain abreast of adolescents' reading engagement frequency, and factors influencing this engagement in a dynamic educational and social environment. As such, this paper seeks to provide insight into how age, gender, place of residency and maternal education may potentially influence adolescents' intensity of engagement in the literacy-supportive practice of recreational book reading. [Author abstract]
ISSN:1038-1562
1839-4728
DOI:10.1007/BF03652005