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Parent-child reading is one of the most important learning activities in parent-child interaction. It helps develop children’s writing and reading skills and other mental abilities. In parent-child reading, children not only acquire knowledge from books but also gain ability training experiences from discussing with their parents. In ddition, interactions between parents and children when reading together are also an important factor affecting children’s learning. In this study, 14 groups of parents and children were recruited for the research on parent-child reading e-books, with interviews as the main method and observation as the supplement. Parent-child reading and various oral and non-verbal behaviors were observed. After observation, behaviors was discussed in depth through semi-structured interviews and compared with observational data. This study found that with different e-book carriers and forms, there were differences in reading behaviors, such as dialogue content and physical interactions between parents and children in each group. In addition, parents and children’s opinions were different.

Reading comics has always been one of the favorite leisure activities of Taiwanese people. To attract Taiwanese people to read and love Taiwanese comics, this study investigates whether Taiwan comics readers will improve their reading motivation and attitude and jointly promote their reading behavior by satisfying their perceived freedom of leisure. This study uses the questionnaire survey method based on purposive sampling to distribute through both online and paper questionnaires and collect one thousand valid responses. The results of the study show that after satisfying their psychological needs during leisure activities, Taiwanese comic readers will improve their reading motivation and reading attitude, which will positively affect the reading behavior of Taiwanese comic readers, and they are willing to continue to engage in reading [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to determine the factors of improving the reading promotion activities effectiveness in university library, so as to provide reference for future reading promotion research and to indicate the direction for the university library to carry out the reading promotion activities with a clear purpose. Based on the theory of behavioral science and from the perspective of readers, it uses empirical methods to find out the influencing factors of the effect of reading promotion activities in university libraries, and constructs a SEM to analyze the effects of the necessary conditions to carry out reading promotion activities on reading behavior. Data based analysis shows that the three conditions of reading promotion activities which are autonomy support, structural support and participation altogether had positive influences on the reading intention and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reading engagement is an important factor that influences student's reading performance and reading ability. Students with higher degree of reading engagement perform higher learning achievement. Reading engagement contains three aspects: reading motivation, reading behavior and reading strategies. Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a reading instructional framework developed by the National Reading Research Center (NRRC). This framework is aimed to encourage students' reading engagement, inspiring reading motivation first and then strengthening the use of learning strategies. Research studies in the United States have shown the effectiveness of CORI on deepening students' reading engagement. However, this study is interested in whether CORI has the same effect in the examination-dominated culture as in Taiwan. This study took quasiexperimental design. Two teachers from different junior high schools participated in this study. Each of them taught experiment group and control group in their school. CORI was conducted in experiment class and reading strategy pedagogy in control class. Reading engagement questionnaires were distributed before and after the experiment. Both participated teachers were interviewed after the experiment to collect students' reaction and teachers' reflection. This study shows that, after eight weeks, the experiment group is superior to control group in reading motivation with statistical significance. However, there is no statistical significant difference in reading behavior and reading strategies. According to teachers' observation, students enjoyed and were interested in inquiry teaching like CORI. Though felt frustrated in the application of reading strategies at the beginning, they soon learned how to applied strategies in later learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates college students' reading behaviors and attitudes toward print and electronic carriers of books. With the prosperity and variety of ebook readers currently, it is important to understand the genuine needs of the users to better leverage the features and functions of the ebook readers. The methodology of survey research is conducted to explore 76 undergraduate students' experiences, preferences and appraisals toward reading via the print books and ebook readers. Generally the college students possess positive attitudes toward and are willing to take advantage of the ebook and ebook reader services provided by libraries, but the current rate of use is low. The results suggested that student adoption of ebook readers are affected by their goals of reading. The college students prefer ebook readers significantly for leisure reading, and highly demand the functionality of multimedia presentations and file management. When reading academic contexts, the college students preferred hardcovers and online ebooks via the Web browser, and they value the functions of searching, marking and file management on ebook readers especially. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)