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Incorporating Student Reading Interests Into The Curriculum, Tia Denise Walker
Incorporating Student Reading Interests Into The Curriculum, Tia Denise Walker
LSU Master's Theses
The purpose of this research was to examine the reading habits and interests of secondary school students in an urban community in order to discover ways to increase student reading interests. The researcher wanted to understand why adolescents choose to read or not to read certain texts and understand the reading behaviors of these students. The study focused on students’ intent to read certain texts such as traditional books and non-traditional texts. To gain knowledge on a larger population of students, a questionnaire based on student reading habits was distributed to all students enrolled in English 1 at the research …