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MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING READING SKILLS

There have been several studied that covered various aspects of motivation with regards to reading skill. Baker, Scher & Mackler (1997) studied home and family influences on motivations for reading of children. They write that children whose have enjoyable encounters with literacy are likely to develop a “predisposition to read frequently and broadly in subsequent years.” Their “self –initiated interactions” with various writings at home are “important behavioral indexes of emerging motivations for reading.” The authors also write that “shared storybook reading” plays an important role in promoting reading motivations. According to them when the socio…

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Bilingualism has a unique place within the educational context, since modern technology has minimalised the distances between countries and people. Furthermore, the growing phenomenon of multilingual and multicultural countries and groupings (United Nations, United States, European Union) gives new significance to the issue. Research on bilingualism has been progressing quite rapidly and different disciplines have added their own contributions to the field. Nevertheless, new questions surface every day and they are usually multiple answers to these questions. This paper also attempts to answer the question whether linguistic diversity is also an inclusive issue. The following study derived from the need…

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Research shows that approximately 20 percent of children in the United States have substantial difficulties learning to read. As these boys and girls grow up, the problematic effects of their reading difficulties are abundant and clear. During the early grades when they should be learning to read, they are embarrassed by their difficulties. This early humiliation leads to a decrease in self-esteem and motivation for school. A child can be easily frustrated and ashamed of poor reading skills once they notice that many of their classmates read fluently. Many of us can probably remember that the slow readers in our…

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This readable volume offers a balanced, up-to-date, and authoritative treatment of major topics of current significance to literacy educators, from foundational topics such as phonological awareness and phonics, through the specifics of teaching diverse and special needs learners, to the challenges of an educational atmosphere ruled by high-stakes testing. The thirty articles gathered here were culled from eighteen different journal and book sources. They address both theoretical and practical issues in an accessible way that gets readers genuinely informed and engaged in conversation about significant topics in contemporary literacy education.

Literacy Teaching and Learning: Current Issues and Trends

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