Young Adults in Sweden on Reading Literary Fiction in Print and Electronic Media

Nilsson, Skans Kersti

doi:10.7771/1481-4374.3140

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“…First, they show that #BookTok tends to present reading as a sensory and haptic experience, with users emphasizing colors, scents and tactile aspects of the books they discuss. This focus on materiality aligns well with research results on young adults' reading preferences, indicating that they prefer tactile reading above digital reading (Loh & Sun, 2019;Nilsson, 2016), although a recent study in Singapore indicates that smartphones are becoming an increasingly important resource for adolescents' leisure reading (Loh & Sun, 2022).…”

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#BookTok's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation

Dera,

Brouwer,

Welling

2023

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Over the last years, the hashtag #BookTok has been viewed more than 100 billion times on TikTok. Hence, both scholars and practitioners have plead for integrating #BookTok in the literacy classroom, expressing the hope that this digital subculture might flip adolescents' conceptions of reading and improve their reading motivation. This article presents the first empirical inquiry into students' evaluations of #BookTok in an educational context. Reporting a survey study among 142 ninth‐grade students in the Netherlands, who were introduced to #BookTok through a compilation video featuring the most popular Dutch #BookTokers, the article shows that the phenomenon especially appeals to students who already read for pleasure frequently. Evaluations by book avoiders, on the other hand, were overwhelmingly negative. Promisingly, though, students who can be described as “book doubters,” who do not read often despite a relatively positive reading attitude, frequently reported an intention to use #BookTok, both in leisurely and educational settings. Hence, the article argues that integrating #BookTok in literacy education might especially serve students fitting the book doubter persona. At the same time, the results underline the importance of differentiation in the literacy classroom, also regarding the use of #BookTok.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 81%

#BookTok's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation

Dera,

Brouwer,

Welling

2023

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“…There is low consensus on the correlation in language learning and humanities Chihara & Oiler, 1978;Pierson et al, 1980). Though there is a lack of research in poetry in higher education, particularly in a Swedish context (Sigvardsson, 2017), the research suggests that there may be a link between knowledge and attitude to poetry (Nilsson, 2016). Thus, there is a relatively high degree of uncertainty in relation to hypotheses 3 and 4 which concern relationships between attitude and knowledge.…”

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An investigation into students’ attitudes towards the value of poetry and their knowledge of poetry analysis

Turner¹

2020

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Though poetry analysis is a central component of literary studies in higher education, research frequently reports that attitudes of both students and teachers to its incorporation in syllabi are mixed (Weaven & Clark, 2014). Previous research suggests a complex relationship between attitudes to and knowledge of poetry with some studies indicating that negative attitudes might be the result of a lack of competency in analysing such texts (Benton, 1999; Fleming, 1992), and others suggesting the greater the knowledge, the less favourable the attitude (Liao & Roy, 2017; Snapper, 2013). This small-scale quantitative study examines connections between knowledge and attitude in a sample of first-semester Swedish students of English, and investigates potential differences between pre-service teachers, and regular students.

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Young Adults in Sweden on Reading Literary Fiction in Print and Electronic Media

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#BookTok's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation

#BookTok's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation

An investigation into students’ attitudes towards the value of poetry and their knowledge of poetry analysis

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