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Chhatta, Sugandani (2015)

Leesweerstand bij kinderen: een negatieve spiraal die de motivatie en leesprestatie beïnvloed?

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

Is attentional bias the underlying concept behind the vicious circle in which children with low reading motivation, poor reading culture (home literacy environment) and lagging in reading performance determine themselves? In the current study, 428 primary school pupils from groups 6 and 7 are taken to investigate the influence of the home literacy environment and reading performance on the reading motivation . Through questionnaires it was found that a more stimulating home environment and literacy ensures a better the vocabulary and a stronger reading motivation . In addition, we investigated whether non- enthusiastic readers have a resistance (attentional bias) to reading. Attentional bias is measured with a digital selective attention task and was not found in enthusiastic or non - enthusiastic readers.

attentional bias

home literacy environment

non-enthusiastic readers

reading motivation

reading performance

Author

Chhatta, Sugandani

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies

Supervisors

Nielen, Thijs

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl