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dc.contributor.authorRutherford, L.
dc.contributor.authorMerga, Margaret
dc.contributor.authorSingleton, A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T08:00:45Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T08:00:45Z
dc.date.created2018-05-18T00:23:22Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationRutherford, L. and Merga, M. and Singleton, A. 2018. Influences on Australian adolescents' recreational reading. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. 41 (1): pp. 44-56.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68094
dc.description.abstract

Competence in literacy skills has long been associated with educational (Moore, Bean, Birdyshaw and Rycik, 1999; Sullivan and Brown, 2015), vocational (Kirsch et al., 2002; Zasacka, 2014) and social achievement (Wilhelm, 2016). 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.

dc.publisherAustralian Literacy Educators' Association
dc.titleInfluences on Australian adolescents' recreational reading
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume2018
dcterms.source.numberJAN
dcterms.source.startPage44
dcterms.source.endPage56
dcterms.source.issn1038-1562
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Journal of Language and Literacy
curtin.departmentSchool of Education
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