Text topic interest, willingness to read and the level of reading comprehension among adults – the role of gender and education level

• Authors: Edyta Charzyńska

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to examine the relations between variables connected with the reader (interest in the text topic and willingness to read it) and the level of reading comprehension among adults, after controlling for text difficulty. The study involved 1549 users of Polish aged from 18 to 87. Open-ended questions were used to measure reading comprehension. It was proved that the model taking into account variables related to the reader better predicted reading comprehension than the model only taking into account text difficulty. Moderation analysis showed a little stronger relation between text topic interest and reading comprehension in the group of women than in the group of men. It was also noted that among adults with lower levels of education text topic interest and willingness to read it were more strongly related to the level of comprehension than among better educated people. The discussion focuses on the role of psychological factors in reading comprehension.

Keywords

EN

reading comprehension; text difficulty; text topic interest; motivation; readability

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 39
• Pages: 84-95

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Edyta Charzyńska

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2015.39.1.07

Biblioteka Nauki

2012252