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Current Perspectives on Literary Reading
Edited by Dari Escandell and José Rovira-Collado
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 22] 2019
► pp. 49–68

Prescriptive reading

Mediation and factors that condition the reading habit

| Universitat d’Alacant
This article empirically measures the real repercussions of specific mediating factors on child and young adult reading habits, particularly those associated with two decisive environments: educational and family. It was compiled from a careful analysis of a rigorous in-house study on reading habits and tendencies. The goal is to study whether the children or young adults’ proclivity towards reading responds to occasional factors that affect it directly and in isolation, or whether the regularity of indicators that end up shifting the balance towards taking pleasure in books ends up being complex and lasting. That is, whether or not the proper fostering of certain strategies is what causes an individual in their formative years to acquire a lasting appetite for reading.
Keywords: reading promotion, Literary criticism, school reading, public epitext, compulsory reading, mediators, educational system, family
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology
  • 3.Results
    • 3.1School
      • Book lending facilitated by the school
      • Selection method for prescriptive reading
      • Reading promotion activities
      • Consequences of reading promotion activities
      • Reading consultation by the teachers
      • Time spent reading for pleasure as opposed to prescriptive reading
    • 3.2Reader’s environment
      • Number of books at home
      • Books given as gifts in the past two or three years
      • Family transmission of oral literature in childhood
      • Possession of one’s own library at home
      • Reading habits of parents
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
Published online: 7 November 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.22.04esc
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