Bringing Book Club to Class: Engaging College Students in Reading Content-specific Books Written for Popular Audiences

Sylvan, Lesley

doi:10.1080/87567555.2018.1518892

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“…It may offer the experience of reading pleasurably without requiring completing a task. Lassonde, Stearns, and Dengler (2005) and Sylvan (2018) have found that some students feel they are required to enjoy reading, and the activities are not valuable.…”

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Fostering the Love of Reading: Dynamics and Sustainability of Book Clubs in Indonesian Universities

Rifai,

Esmerawati,

Rusiana

et al. 2023

Lingua Cultura

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The research aimed to reveal the dynamics of the book clubs that the researchers started with and for Indonesian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students at the university level, as well as the club's impacts on students' learning. Book clubs were essential in nurturing students' reading habits as a community. Studies found that book club activities affected one’s engagement in reading by giving readers the voice, room to participate actively, social support, and the choice to decide what they read. Indonesian university students in the EFL context faced reading engagement issues; the researchers initiated book clubs with the unified mission of growing students' love of reading and forming good reading habits. The research reported a qualitative study of a group of Indonesia Extensive Reading Association (IERA) members sharing reflections on establishing and managing book clubs or literature circles in six universities in Indonesia where the researchers taught. The data of participants' reflections were gathered and analyzed iteratively to find common themes or patterns. As a result, the research finds that the book club activities have fostered the love of reading and inferred the empowerment of collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. The research also reveals that in setting up a book club at the university level, the support of the university and the readers' community and extended networks are needed. For a book club to sustain itself, four aspects must be considered: participants' involvement, product-oriented activities, voluntarism of participants, and rewards.

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“…However, some are resistant and feel that they are asked to enjoy reading. Similarly, Sylvan (2018) has stated that many students benefit from the book club, while others feel the required discussion elements are less valuable. Therefore, the research recommends altering the book club format regarding frequency, duration, and location.…”

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Fostering the Love of Reading: Dynamics and Sustainability of Book Clubs in Indonesian Universities

Rifai,

Esmerawati,

Rusiana

et al. 2023

Lingua Cultura

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“…However, one area of preference was missing: book choice. Ideally, book club participants collaborate in choosing club readings rather than the decision being made solely by the instructor (e.g., Sylvan 2018;Beach and Yussen 2011). This approach can promote student buy-in and motivation but can present its own challenges within an academic setting, particularly if required reading lists must be published well in advance of the semester.…”

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“…This approach can promote student buy-in and motivation but can present its own challenges within an academic setting, particularly if required reading lists must be published well in advance of the semester. One alternative is to create a menu of four or five works from which students can choose, as discussed in Sylvan (2018), an idea that I may implement the next time I use this model. Regardless, in both courses discussed here, my choice was driven by fairly simple parameters: effective literary prose that could be used to demonstrate craft strategies; a contemporary writer who was relatively youthful (so that students could feel at least some generational connection); and vibrant and socially relevant plot lines that would provoke discussion.…”

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Perkins

2022

KULA

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This teaching reflection examines how “reading together” was fostered in synchronous and asynchronous online environments in two undergraduate creative writing courses through participation in a virtual book club. In the first course, prior to the pandemic, students had the option of meeting in person or via Zoom while we read Daisy Johnson’s Oedipus Rex retelling, Everything Under, for the book club. In the second course, during the pandemic, students had virtual synchronous and written participation choices while we read together Jessica Anthony’s political satire, Enter the Aardvark, with the author visiting in two sessions. In both cases, the goals were consistent: to get students reading as writers; to foster intrinsic motivation through personal choice; and to satisfy students’ desire for community connection while still accommodating personal schedules and geographical location. A virtual book club lets students read on their own schedule and in their own space, but still share their experience and observations with peers over greater distances (and time zones) than would otherwise be possible.

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“…Although this classification between interactive and passive reading cannot be directly transferred to adults, book clubs imply a dialogic reading procedure. In this way, some book clubs on technical texts have been developed for specific health sectors, such as undergraduate students (Jones et al, 2022) or pharmacy resident students (Chappell & Dervay, 2016) and, particularly, a book club for undergraduate students attending to a course on language acquisition was based on scientific dissemination books on the topic (Sylvan, 2018). Book clubs have also been developed for different therapeutic purposes, for instance, in subjects with aphasia (Knollman-Porter & Julian, 2019) or in a follow-up program for cancer survivors (Hammer et al, 2017).…”

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Book clubs as strategy for increasing nutrition knowledge among general population

López-Díaz

Romero

Sanchez-Ballesta

et al. 2023

Rev Esp Comun Salud

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Introduction: The spread of false news related to nutrition shows the need to provide general public validated information on food and health, inducing them to follow healthy dietary habits. Objective: To assess whether attendance to book clubs devoted to scientific disseminations books is a useful strategy for improving nutritional knowledge among the population. Methodology: 65 adults participated in a reading club, attending a research center once a month for 4 months to talk about informative scientific books on food/nutrition. The knowledge of the participants was monitored through a survey performed in all the sessions of the club. Results: Participants were mostly female with university studies. Attendance to the book clubs caused a significant increase (P < 0.05) in the number of correct answers on a questionnaire about common misbeliefs on the topics covered in the discussed books. Participants showed a high degree of satisfaction with the activity and willingness to read more scientific dissemination books, even when most of them were not previously usual readers. Conclusions: Book clubs based on popular science books and led by scientists with expertise in the field could increase nutritional knowledge among general population, which should be further explored in different socioeconomic contexts.

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Bringing Book Club to Class: Engaging College Students in Reading Content-specific Books Written for Popular Audiences

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Fostering the Love of Reading: Dynamics and Sustainability of Book Clubs in Indonesian Universities

Fostering the Love of Reading: Dynamics and Sustainability of Book Clubs in Indonesian Universities

Reading Together

Book clubs as strategy for increasing nutrition knowledge among general population

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