Academic self-efficacy has been positively related to academic achievement in previous studies with middle school, high school, and undergraduate students. This small-scale study investigated the relationship between student reading self-efficacy and student reading achievement with second grade students in central Montana. Participating students completed a Reading Self-Efficacy Questionnaire ...

Julie Gilbert is Academic Librarian, Assistant Professor, and Barbara Fister is Academic Librarian, Professor, at the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College; e-mail: Jgilber2@gustavus. edu,[email protected].© Julie Gilbert and Barbara Fister News reports and well-publicized government studies have led to a popular perception that reading is an endangered activity, part...

Reading development and instruction is a pedagogical priority at all academic levels. Historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex process of foreign language reading comprehension. More recently, increasing attention has been paid to the use of computers for developing reading comprehension skills and various efforts have been made in this r...

This study investigated whether and how university students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge i.e., epistemological beliefs affected L2 academic reading ability directly and/or indirectly via self-regulated learning strategies. EFL college students (n =196) answered the reading section of a TOEFL test, two parts of Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and Epistemological Beliefs...

This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students’ reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to record information about their reading practices for twelve days, including length of reading event, location, format used and the purpose of reading. Students tended to use print for academic and long-form reading and to engage with it more d...