Browsing The reading centre by Subject "literacy"
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Motivation for Reading within the First Year of Formal Reading Instruction
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2018-05)The present thesis empirically and theoretically explores motivation for reading in Norwegian first-graders during their first year of formal reading instruction (N = 1,141). Early motivation for reading is conceptualized ... -
Organizing Shared Digital Reading in Groups: Optimizing the Affordances of Text and Medium
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)Children develop their language when they explore and talk about literary texts. In this study, we explore the design of shared digital reading as a basis for critical reflection on the reading situation in an institutional ... -
The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish–Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking ... -
The Quantity and Quality of Teachers’ Self‑perceptions of Read‑Aloud Practices in Norwegian First Grade Classrooms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)Read-alouds are a frequent practice in early childhood classrooms and provide great potential for developing literacy skills for young learners including vocabulary, comprehension, text structure awareness, visual literacy, ... -
Rethinking agency in literacies: Malawian children’s and teachers’ perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)This qualitative study contributes theorised and empirically enriched insights from local practices into children’s agency. The authors trace a converging interest in multimodal literacies, postcolonial philosophies and ... -
Rom for muntlighet? Språklig tenking og tekstsamtaler i norskfagets literacy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i en forståelse av tale og skrift som sentrale tanketeknologier og et helhetlig perspektiv på literacy som tilgang til skriften, tekstmening og til diskursive fellesskap. Videre analyseres en ... -
Shared, dialogue-based reading with books vs tablets in early childhood education and care (ECEC): Protocol for a mixed-methods intervention study.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07)This paper presents the study protocol for a research project assessing the appropriateness of picture book apps in shared reading with young children. An intervention study was carried out insixECECinstitutions,comparin ... -
Text Materialities, Affordances, and the Embodied Turn in the Study of Reading.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)Digital texts have for decades been a challenge for reading research, creating a range of questions about reading and a need for new theories and concepts. In this paper, we focus on materialities of texts and suggest an ... -
The ABC of reading : perspectives on the alphabetic principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)An alphabetic writing system is a system in which words consist of individual letters that corre-spond to spoken-language units at a similar level of analysis. The systematic relationships between units of these two systems ... -
The impact of Home Language and Home Resources on Reading Achievement in ten-year-olds in Norway, PIRLS 2016
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04)The aim of the current study was to examine the associations between a child’s home language, home resources for learning to read and reading achievement. Whereas the role of a child’s first language in second language ... -
The impact of reading self-efficacy and task value on reading comprehension scores in different item formats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-02)It has been hypothesized that students with low self-efficacy will struggle with complex reading tasks in assessment situations. In this study we examined whether perceived reading self-efficacy and reading task value uniquely ... -
‘TL;DR’ (Too Long; Didn’t Read)? Cognitive Patience as a Mode of Reading: Exploring Concentration and Perseverance.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Reading literature is often related to cognitive patience (i.e., the ability to read with focused and sustained attention and delay gratification, while refraining from multitasking or skimming over parts of the text). In ... -
Understanding reading development : a phenomenological perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The starting point of this article is a challenge presented to the research community in recent reviews of reading research and practice (Alexander & Fox 2004, 2007; Fox & Alexander 2009). That challenge is twofold in that ... -
Young students’ motivation to write : An investigation of K-5 students’ own responses and of the self-reports used to capture their voices
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The present project contributes knowledge of K-5 students’ motivation to write and foregrounds the students’ voices by examining students’ self-reports, like surveys, interviews, and alternative reports (e.g., drawings and ...