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Ms. Curtis was found guilty and sent to prison even though she was not texting at the time of the accident, because the new guidelines regard "reading or composing text messages over a period of time" as "a gross avoidable distraction".
But more thought led these parents to realize that they feared that this kind of testing, and their school's practice of "turning the experience of reading into something that is to be quantified" ensured that "children will learn to regard reading as a chore and not as one of life's great pleasures".
Many of the above studies imply a causal association between reading attitude and reading attainment (Schofield [1980]), leading researchers to regard reading attitude as an affective stimulant of reading development (see, in this regard, McKenna et al. [1995]).
In this regard, reading Hartley one encounters a vision of human nature as deeply conflicted, struggling against itself — a view similar to what one finds in Dostoyevsky or Kierkegaard.
"...surveys increasingly show that children regard reading as a chore, something that needs to be accomplished for the sake of passing tests, not as a joy in itself.
This contrasts with, for instance, Australia, where most people regard reading as a pleasurable activity, and read newspapers, magazines and books at least once a week [ 53].
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(For more of our thoughts in this regard, read these two blogs we posted to the Huffington Post in the past).
Mr. Pamuk understands cultural isolation, more deeply than most writers, perhaps, because he regards reading as a profoundly isolating experience.
The results indicated that there was no significant difference among groups regarding reading attitudes and motivation according to their GPA.
In their studies, stakeholders considered assessment of oral/aural skills irrelevant because societal values regarded reading skills as "academic" and indicative of test takers' diligence whereas speaking skills were considered "too basic to assess" (Nkosana, 2008, p. 305).
One should also bear in mind that ineffectiveness regarding reading achievement in grade four does not mean that there might not be effects earlier or later on in children's school career (see the discussion on fading-out effects in Barnett 2011; Duncan and Magnusson 2013).
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