High school students’ attentional stance, modes of reading engagement, and self-insight during literary reading

Grandits, Peter (author), Krek, Janez (author)

The primary aim of this study was to analyze the validity and reliability of an instrument capable of measuring high school students’ attentional stance, modes of reading engagement, and self-insight during literary reading. For this purpose, a self-report questionnaire was administered to high school students in three Austrian regions (N = 417). First, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the validity and the reliability of the preconceived measurement model. Second, the interrelationships among the validated constructs were analyzed through structural equation modeling. The fit and the validity of the structural model were evaluated, and the mediating effect of expressive reading was tested. The study yielded an instrument with valid and reliable scores that assesses 9 dimensions of high school students’ reading experiences. The basic Kuiken-Douglas model (2017) on reading engagement and reading outcome could be replicated. Structural equation modeling indicated that high attentional focus negatively predicted expressive-experiential reading that in turn facilitated self-insight. This implies that students should be allowed leaky attention so that they can work with literary texts in a self-modifying way in literature education. Limitations are discussed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: literature education, attention, reading engagement, self-insight, structural equation modelling
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 1-28
• Numbering: Vol. 23, (open iss.)
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-149142
• UDC: 373.5:028
• ISSN on article: Y510-1972
• DOI: 10.21248/l1esll.2023.23.1.485
• COBISS.SI-ID: 163108611

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 04.09.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: L1 educational studies in languages and literature
• Shortened title: L1-ESLL
• Publisher: Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE)
• ISSN: 1573-1731
• COBISS.SI-ID: 163032067

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: književna vzgoja, pozornost, bralni angažma, samopregled