Influences on Australian adolescents' recreational reading

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Influences on Australian adolescents' recreational reading

Competence in literacy skills has long been associated with educational (Moore, Bean, Birdyshaw and Rycik, 1999; Sullivan and Brown, 2015), vocational (Kirsch et al., 2002; Zasacka, 2014) and social achievement (Wilhelm, 2016). Since research indicates that reading as a recreational pursuit improves...

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Main Authors:	Rutherford, L., Merga, Margaret, Singleton, A.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Australian Literacy Educators' Association 2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68094

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