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Are Education Majors Really Reading among the Least in Taiwan? A Closer Investigation
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Chen, Su-Yen – Reading Improvement, 2020
The topic of practicing and prospective teachers' readership has received attention in reading research, but there is a gap in Western studies when it comes to comparing teachers' reading status with that of the general population. With data from a national survey in Taiwan on college juniors, this study found that education majors as a subgroup…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Recreational Reading
The Avid Adolescent Reader Revisited: Gender Differences and Their Association with Family Factors
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Chen, Su-Yen; Lu, Luo; Chen, Su-Yen – Reading Improvement, 2020
As a follow-up study to a cross-sectional national study that established the linkage between gender as well as family factors and the likelihood of being Taiwanese adolescent readers, this study attempted to utilize the same data set with longitudinal data to explore whether the association between family factors and being an avid adolescent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Followup Studies, Adolescents, Reading
Taiwanese College Students' Reading Practices and Profiles in Both Print- and Internet-Based Formats
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Chen, Su-Yen; Fang, Sheng-Ping – Reading Improvement, 2014
This study expanded the definition of reading practices to include both print- and Internet-based reading, and examined the relationship of reading profiles to Taiwanese college students' performance on various practices. The results showed that more time was spent on Internet-than print-based extracurricular reading, and that the three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Reading Habits, Educational Practices
The Avid Adolescent Reader Revisited: Gender Differences and Their Association with Family Factors
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Chen, Su-Yen; Lu, Luo – Reading Improvement, 2012
As a follow-up study to a cross-sectional national study that established the linkage between gender as well as family factors and the likelihood of being Taiwanese adolescent readers, this study attempted to utilize the same data set with longitudinal data to explore whether the association between family factors and being an avid adolescent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Followup Studies, Adolescents, Reading